Police Officer Saves 100
Baby Sea Turtles From Certain Death
Sea Turtles have recently
been in danger more than ever before, and not because of natural causes,
because of us, humans. They have been choking on plastic bags, mistaking them
for jelly fish, which is a snack they enjoy. Those plastic bags don’t just show
up randomly though, we put them there. Another way is baby sea turtles when
they first hatch. Naturally only 1 in 1000 live till adult hood, but that is
natural, and normally when they first hatch and try to go towards the ocean,
they don’t always make it because of other animals.
But sadly, they don’t go towards the ocean because of the
salty sea smell, they go towards the brightest light they see, which should be
the moon, and that is how they make it to the sea. But sadly, now that humans
have started making resorts along the oceans, it’s not only the moon lighting
they see, its artificial light from the buildings and streets, which is
brighter than the moon causing them to go that way, away from the sea. Which, I
don’t know about you, but that is awful that creatures are dying because of
this.
But they got lucky in this case, and I think that we need
more people like this in the world, a police man was on patrol and saw these
tiny creatures crawling towards a hotel, away from the ocean. I think that I would
have had the same reaction he did, because he grabbed a cardboard box, and
grabbed all the little turtles he could find and released them into the Gulf of
Mexico, away from the streets. He saved their lives and this makes me happy to
know that there are still people like this out there.
This obviously relates to science, because of them moving
towards the lights, but it also relates to geography because of the hotels and
cities, showing human development.
Works Cited
Molland, Judy. “Police
Officer Saves 100 Baby Sea Turtles From Certain Death.” Care2. Care2.
24
Aug. 2013. Web. 2 Nov. 2014.
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