Preserving Our Nature-Sea Turtle Essay

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ENTRY NUMBER: E3 Conserving Our Nature - Sea Turtle A Global Perspective Summary Turtles in Malaysia are increasingly threatened and endangered drasticly . In Malaysia, not only as a turtle reptile normal life, but the turtle is a tourist attraction in the country. For example, many tourists come to the states known attractions turtle populations such as Kelantan, Terengganu, Johor and Penang. Who would have thought, just because of the type of animal species, countries of Malaysia may be known and can improve the economy through tourism. But unfortunately, endangered turtle populations due to the threat of predators and human activity. However, the threat of predators did not affect the full extinction of the turtles, but rather human activities that often threaten the lives of turtles. Among them are unplanned developments such as hotels and buildings as well as fishing by fishermen using nets. Besides, there are also people who catch turtles with eggs for sale on the black market. This all happened because people are easily tempted by lust and greed. By the Malaysian government has introduced several measures to protect the animal. All these initiatives also involved the community, specific organizations, undergraduates, the school and other countries internationally. Therefore, all the …show more content…

In that case, the turtles are being taken under the protection of the Fisheries Department. Even though the duty was given by the government to the Fishier Department, it is our responsibility to keep the turtles safe. Their numbers are dwindling because they face many dangers, the biggest which is humans. Populations of sea turtles worldwide have dropped by 80% to 90% since 60s. Leatherback and Hawksbill species is listed as one of the 10 most endangered animals in the world. On the other hand, the green turtle hatchlings. Even the scientists have estimate that only one of each thousand hatchings will survive till

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