The life cycle of a sea turtle

Did you know that sea turtles have been around since dinosaurs ruled earth?

Sea turtles are amazing animals but sadly they are nearly extinct because of us. The average sea turtle lays about 1000 leathery ping pong ball sized eggs a year in a hole dug high on the beach by it’s mother. 20% never hatch. After one and a half months the rest hatch and make a desperate dash for the ocean.

The ones that do hatch have more challengers like pitfalls, debris, crabs, raccoons and gulls claim around 50% of the turtles that hatch. 4OO make it to the water. So the ones that do make it to the water trade one threat for another now they battle small sharks and strong current. For the first couple of days the little baby sea turtles will stay under a little patch of floating seaweed.

200 of these progress to adult age without human inteference so now the only other sea life that are a threat to the sea turtle are larger sharks like bulls, tigers, whites and even the occasional killer whale so that only leaves 20 survive to breeding age without human interference. 2 survive to breeding age with human interference. So that means only 2 sea turtles survive out of 1000 eggs which I find hard to believe that they are still living today.

This means that we need to stop polluting our ocean so the sea turtle can still be around in the future.