The Importance Of Environmental Conservation

This is because sand does not hold nutrients very well. Sea turtles use beaches and the lower dunes to nest and lay their eggs. Not every nest will hatch, not every egg in a nest will hatch, and not all of the hatchlings in a nest will make it out of the nest. All the unhatched nests, eggs and trapped hatchlings are very good sources of nutrients for the dune vegetation, even the left over egg shells from hatched eggs provide some nutrients. Dune vegetation is able to grow and become stronger with the presence of nutrients from turtle eggs. As the dune vegetation grows stronger and healthier, the health of the entire beach or dune ecosystem becomes better. Stronger vegetation and root systems helps to hold the sand in the dunes and helps protect

When most people think about conservation, they think about conserving, protecting, and sustaining the natural environment. The field of conservation science is certainly oriented towards a conservation goal, but it is multidisciplinary field involving such natural and social sciences as ecology, biology, economics, and sociology. Accordingly, the social world can be conserved just as the natural world. Environmental conservation is a concept widely used by conservation scientists, and it emphasizes a commitment to passing down an inherited ecological system to future generations, and possibly passing the system along in an improved state. There is a wide range of threats that have contributed to the decreasing size of the 7 different sea turtle populations. Many threats to sea turtles can be attributed to human. There are threats that humans present to sea turtles at sea. Turtles are subject to adverse interactions with commercial fisheries and habitat pollution, from which turtles may ingest wastes. The inability of sea turtle populations to recover has been partly attributed to their incidental capture in fisheries. Sea Turtle Excluder Devices (TED) have been designed and implemented to address the by-catch issue. Human threats are also present on beaches. Turtles are particularly vulnerable during the reproductive stages, and there are several threats presented to nesting turtles. A major indirect threat is the anthropogenic manipulation of coastal nesting areas; this limits the space the turtle has to nest and could negatively alter the turtle’s nesting behavior. Humans present a direct threat to nesting sea turtles through the exploitation of reproductive adults and their eggs. On beaches where there are large numbers of nesting females, the locals use the sea turtles for meat and consumption of their eggs, for example, in developing nations. Additionally, marine turtles are