Loggerhead
Turtle
Loggerhead
How you can help
The Endangered Loggerhead Turtle
Hello and welcome. I'll assume you're here because you care about the loggerhead turtle. And that's perfect! That’s why we're here too. This calm, kind, and majestic creature is endangered and he needs your help. So go ahead! Click around, explore, learn a little more, and don’t forget to find out what you can do to help protect this beautifully gentle and increasingly important turtle.
Ten Scary Facts
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Only one or two of thousands of eggs will make it to adulthood (Oceana, n.d.).
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Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles a year are accidentally caught in shrimp trawl nets, on longline hooks, and in fishing gillnets (WWF, 2015).
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Global estimates of annual capture, injury and mortality are staggering more than 200,000 loggerheads (Information About Sea Turtles: Loggerhead Sea Turtle.).
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During the week before easter in mexico as many as 5,000 turtles are consumed in this region alone (STC, 2015).
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On the Florida coast alone there have already been 62 arrests for the illegal possession or sale of sea turtle eggs (Recovery Plan).
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100 million marine animals are killed each year due to plastic debris in the ocean. (Information About Sea Turtles: Loggerhead Sea Turtle.).
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400 kg of debris can be found per kilometre of coastline along remote parts of the northern Australia (Caretta Caretta).
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All 7 species of sea turtles are at risk of poaching or illegal trade for their meat, eggs, or shell and all 7 are endangered (Baby Sea Turtles).
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Foxes and dogs destroy hundreds of nests, in some places up to 95% of all clutches laid were destroyed by foxes (Caretta caretta, 2015).
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Researchers estimate that each year poachers take 30,000 green turtles in Baja California and that more than 50,000 marine turtles are killed in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific (Loggerhead Turtle).
