Summary and Response #2 - Turtles are threatened by environment change

In this Canberra Times (2007) article ”Turtle under siege as the environment", the author expresses that global warming actually is a big trouble for Murray turtles. Global warming also makes water dry in the habitats of turtles and there are about 10,000 Murray turtles who died in this situation. The author also says that water temperature is also a big problem for turtles. It influences their digestion rate, growth and aestivation periods. He also mentions that foxes are the biggest enemy for turtles. Foxes eat turtles’ eggs and kill turtles for their food. Finally, the author argues that temperature is also a factor of turtles’ extinction. The higher temperature will cause that cause most baby turtles to be female. Climate change actually is a big problem for turtles.

It is clear that climate change is influencing turtles’ lives in this current century. A lot of animals are also facing the situation of extinction like polar bears, penguins, and sea turtles. Scientists are looking for the best way to prevent this situation from being worse. Environment change actually makes them almost die out even though they have lived for 200 billion years in this earth. Sea turtle will be extinct in the future or they will still be living in the future. Solving the problem of global warming is the important key to stop climate change. Stopping killing sea turtles and giving safe habitats for sea turtles is also the important thing we need to do.

Scientists seriously claim that global warming is the big factor to cause climate change. Global warming causes the temperature to rise. Even though the temperature just rises two or three degrees, they have caused a lot of problem to all kinds of species. Especially some animals are sensitive to temperature, such as sea turtles. Higher temperature make the eggs be incubated to female sea turtles. More female turtles and few male turtles will cause sea turtles to be endangered. Stopping rising temperature is the major problem we need to solve. And this way also can save sea turtles’ lives.

Return the beautiful beach for the earth. Overexploitation of the beaches actually threatens turtles’ reproduction. People develop the tourism by destroying beaches to establish some buildings. This development will attract people and bring income from tourism. After people visit this beach, they leave garbage on the beach. Garbage pollutes the beaches and the habitats of sea turtles are also polluted. The habitats are smaller than before and sea turtles are facing death at the same time. So what can people do? All that people can do is maintain the original beaches to be suitable for sea turtles, and design an area for protecting habitats of sea turtles. They will have more chances to live in the world.

Stop catching these endangered animals. Any animals have authority to live on this beautiful earth. People don’t need sea turtles as food. So people don’t have any reason to kill sea turtles. The government needs to make a law to forbid this cruel behavior and protect them. Therefore, the problem of sea turtles will be respected.

In conclusion, climate change actually influences sea turtles’ lives. People also destroy habitats of sea turtles. More and more people understand this situation is worse and worse. But people are not sure whether climate change will really kill all sea turtles or not. Maybe sea turtles will adapt to this new climate because they are the most ancient animals and survived in even the dangerous climate that caused dinosaurs to die.

Reference

Turtle under siege as the environment. (2007, January 29). Canberra Times. Retrieved October 29, 2007, from http://www.lexisnexis.com