Green Turtle Soup

The Green Turtle is one of the most endangered sea animals in the entire world. The turtle is one of seven kinds of turtles that are left in the sea and are endangered due to human interference with both their habitats and their lives. The Green Sea Turtle it was given that name because it is said that they have a layer of green fat under their shell also known as their carapace. The turtle travels all around the world and can be found in the: Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. It life first begins in a beach where its mother has nested and put between 100 and 200 eggs in one nest. After 40 to 56 days, the baby green sea turtle moves from the underground nest up to the beach’s surface, where it will try to survive until it can make it into the water. Many of the babies never make it to the water due to predators in the wild such as crabs and seagulls, but the ones that make it spend the next five years of their life in the water getting bigger and bigger, some up to 5 ft. and with a weight of 661 lbs.

The green sea turtle will spend its life in coastal waters eating mostly sea grass. Both the female and male sea turtle will start to mate once they have reaches maturity, which is around 20 years of life. The female will mate every two to four years once it matures, while the male turtle will mate every year. The female turtle will return to the beach that it hatched from to lay her eggs. The green turtle has been endangered for many years due to humans both harming the animal and its habitat. Pollution and tourism have been the major cause of nesting ground lost. Tourist that go to beaches to relax in the sun have made it impossible for sea turtle to breed, while pollution has started causing health problem for turtles such as tumors and babies being born with deformations. Humans have also started to eat the animal’s eggs which are a delicacy in some parts of the world and the main ingredient for turtle soup. Sailors’ nets have also become a problem for turtles due to the fact that they are getting caught in the nets and then drowning. Many countries have started laws to help preserve green sea turtles, but humans are still killing them. Humans’ selfish actions are destroying one of the sea’s oldest creatures, the green sea turtle, which can live up to eighty years. If humans could: clean the earth’s water, not kill turtles as food and not invade its habit, the green sea turtle could live and finally get off the world’s endangerment list.