{"id":163,"date":"2021-03-17T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:14:17","slug":"sea-turtles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/sea-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Endangered sea turtles.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Sea turtles.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (founded in 1964), three of the world\u2019s seven species of sea turtles are either \u2018endangered\u2019 or \u2018critically endangered\u2019.\u00a0An additional three species are classified as \u2018vulnerable\u2019.<\/p>\n

Sea turtles are severely threatened by the way humans use plastic.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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After hatching from their eggs on the beach they have to find the ocean by themselves and on their journey from land to sea, they may encounter lots of plastic. Some are trapped in it and die from lack of resources and from the sun being too hot. Sea turtles eat plastic bags because they confuse them with their actual diet such as jellyfish and algae.\u00a0This can clog their intestines and cause internal bleeding which will eventually kill them.<\/p>\n

Plastic is threatening not only the sea turtles, but oceans, beaches and dunes as well. In the oceans, sea turtles are among the very few creatures that eat sea grass. These plants need to be constantly cut short to help them grow across the sea floor \u2013 and that is vital as sea grass beds provide breeding and developmental grounds for a great number of marine animals.<\/p>\n

Sea turtles lay their eggs on beaches and in sand dunes.\u00a0As these environments are poor on nutrient, they depend on vegetation to protect against erosion. Eggs and hatchlings failing to make it into the ocean are nutrient sources for this vegetation \u2013 and therefore protect the nesting habitats for sea turtles.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavior.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}