WALT: Me and my class had to write about the environment and the planet, i picked to write about turtles,
Q: What did you write about?
I enjoyed researching about this topic a lot
Turtles
Some people think that one small piece of plastic will do nothing to the earth, well you're wrong because 44 million people think the same thing. How much plastic does that leave us with, a lot! Sea turtles are in danger because of plastic, there are 7 kinds of turtles three of them can be found in New Zealand. There's the green turtle, leatherback and hawksbills, those are the turtles that can be found in New Zealand the rest are the loggerheads, kemps ridley, olive ridley and flatbacks. Did you know that turtles were around when the dinosaurs were, cool right? Sadly the kemps ridley is the most endangered.
Global warming is affecting all of the turtles. Most of the turtles in the world are girls because global warming is making the sand hot, if the sand is hot the turtles will be female if the sand is cold the turtle will be male. Therefore, there are more females in the sea. Also global warming is affecting sea turtles food how? Well, the heat is affecting the seaweed and plastic bags look like jellyfish, turtles eat seaweed and
jellyfish.
The list of things we can do to help the sea turtles is big, but we need to act soon before it's too late. We can do things like make different styled nets so turtles don't get caught or make the nets biodegradable. Hopefully this will help you understand more so we can help the sea turtles.
