The survival crisis of the green sea turtle

The green sea turtle

< p> Green sea turtles take decades to grow and mature, and the growth process is extremely slow. At present, the natural environment is getting worse and worse, and as human consumption capabilities are getting higher and higher, the existence of green sea turtles has also caused many crises. The causes of emergencies can be divided into the following categories:

1. Various economic values ​​of green sea turtles.

Like other countries in the world, when low-level property was still the main economic activity in society, sea turtles would do their best to use the caught green sea turtles like other catches. . For example, turtle skin can be used to make leather goods, turtle shells can be used as Chinese medicinal materials, turtle meat can be eaten, and so on. These high economic prices have stimulated human fishing activities for sea turtles.

2. The problem of bycatch in fish farms.

The fishing sport that has the greatest impact on sea turtles is the trawl fishery. The current huge trawling industry uses lead bars flying on the lower layer of the net. In addition to the high economic value fish species that humans love to eat, not only the shrimps and crabs resting on the seabed, but also the sea turtles migrating in the sea are not spared. The situation of bycatch in fishing activities has caused a large amount of excessive waste of marine resources, and many creatures have died unexpectedly. Taiwan's green sea turtles are also threatened by this.

3. Religion is put on hold.

Many green sea turtles are caught to meet the needs of religious release. However, survivors often fail to understand that after a green loggerhead turtle is caught, it is sold to a middleman, and then the middleman sells it to a religious group. Finally, the religious group releases the turtle back into the sea through a ceremony. This process of changing hands sometimes takes several months or even half a year. The turtle that was left "alive" has long since expired, and its day and night are no longer guaranteed. The euphemistic name is that it is a way for green sea turtles to survive. How can there be any charity in this act of catching first and then releasing it? How many innocent lives died before the whole process could be spared?

4. There is pressure from the outbreak of reclamation and recreational activities.

Construction projects on the beach environment will have the most direct damage to the spawning grounds of green sea turtles. In addition, passengers dig and relax on the beach, which makes the coastline uneven and reduces the difficulty for green turtles to move to the left and right banks. The longer the turtles stay on the mainland, the greater the chance that the hatchlings will be caught by predators. The higher theThe recovery rate of a large dwarf green sea turtle population. Garbage bags left by passengers on the beach have also been accidentally eaten by green sea turtles, causing malignant tumors to grow in their stomachs. Some curious tourists even turned the green loggerhead turtle over, pointing its legs upward to see how it resisted. It is very difficult for a green sea turtle to flip over from such a position on its back and abdomen. During the time it turned over, a predator might have attacked it, or a businessman might have caught it and cooked it into a soup, or It couldn't withstand the sun for a long time and died on the beach.

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