Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Save the TURTLES!!!

For my research paper I plan to write about the light pollution and how it affects sea turtles. I plan to talk about how this problem came about and how we as a community can fix it. Sea turtles are endangered because the way the society is getting developed people are not aware of how much a building with lights on the seawall can affect the sea turtles. This is a problem because when buildings are built with lights and the sea turtles are hatching, sea turtles uses the light to guide them towards the ocean so that they can live, but because the buildings on the seawall have bright lights as well the turtles follow that light instead of the moon which guides them off course and once they head towards the buildings they are putting their self in even more danger because they are prong to predators, dehydration and short lives. I hope by the end of my paper it makes people want to get up and go out and help save the sea turtles and hope people act on the buildings. I believe that if the buildings would use a light that didn’t shine on the beach but shined towards the building itself I believe that would help a lot and if in the summer or whenever hatching season is people would volunteer to go out to the beaches and help guide the sea turtles to the ocean so that they can live and wont end up as prey for a crab or die of dehydration due to the fact that they haven’t made it to the water in time.  Though sea turtles have nothing to do with the human race it self that creature was created for a reason though we do not know the reason we still should help save this defenseless animal. I believe that even though we not obligated to save this animal that we should anyways due to the fact that we can help them so much and that in the next couple of decades we are not saying “save the sea turtles”  because we’ve done so much now that there’s enough of the to populate over time. I think it would be an easy task simply because if the buildings can just change the way their lights shine and people can go to the beaches and help guide the turtles.

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