Tim the Turtle Man's Monday Talk
Tim the Turtle man is passionate about his project, and shared a wealth of information with us in his talk. The nursery currently holds about 4000 turtle eggs, of three of the four species found in this area - the more common Olive Ridley sea turtles (vulnerable), one nest of green sea turtles (endangered), and one nest of the critically endangered Hawksbill sea turtles. The statistics on world population of these sea turtles vary but are stunningly low: according to Tim, there are only 20,000 nesting female Hawksbills and 40,000 nesting female green sea turtles. The Olive Ridley sea turtles, the most abundant, have about 800,000 nesting females in the wild, but previously there were more than ten million in the Pacific Ocean alone, with only 15% left compared to 60 years ago. The large decreases in their population are because they have been harvested for their meat, eggs and skin. Sea turtles are the living representatives of a group of reptiles that has exis...
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