The Sea Turtle Cheat Code
The Sea Turtle Cheat Code with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science
Over the past few decades, the number of green sea turtles has risen so much that the species has gone from being listed as “endangered” to a species of “least concern.” Sea turtles have become a poster child for conservation – and it seems like we could use what we’ve learned from saving them to save a bunch of other species too…but it turns out it’s not that simple.
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Life history: The overall pattern of changes, growth, survival, and reproduction that a living organism experiences from birth to natural death.
- Bycatch: Animals inadvertently caught by humans trying to catch something else.
- IUCN Red List: The current most comprehensive inventory for tracking the global conservation status and extinction risk of species.
- Natal homing: The process by which adult female turtles return to nest on or near the beach where they hatched.
- Mast year: A year when certain trees produce a huge crop of fruit or seeds all at once. Kākāpō only breed in rimu mast years, every 2 to 4 years.
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REFERENCES
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Madden, Christine. Global Marine Turtle Conservation Lead, WWF. Personal interview.
Shaw, Rebecca. Chief Scientist, WWF. Personal interview.
