Turtle Trouble
Jeevesh Konuru
2/23/11
Period 1
Essay
Turtle Trouble
There are three types of endangered turtle species the loggerheads, leatherbacks, and greens in the Philippines that are threatened from poachers. This is because they live on the same beaches as natives that rely on the turtle eggs. Without the turtle eggs they are going hungry. On the other hand when they eat the turtle eggs the turtle population is drastically decreasing. So conservationists are ‘smuggling’ the eggs and taking them to a controlled safe environment. This leaves the natives angry and hungry, and increases the amount of human artificial contact with the turtles. At the same times the turtle populations are supposedly increasing, and according to the conservationists “ we are increasing the turtle population for later generations.”