TELL ME IF THIS VIDEO IS REAL OR A CREATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

No turtle soup for me! 

LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER JUNO BEACH FLORIDA : HEALING SEA TURTLES

MARINE LIFE ORG : LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER  Turtle walks, hatchling discoveries, the release of sea turtles who have been healed.  This is one of the most visited tourist spots in Florida. (Check out that photograph of one massive sea turtles!)

Excerpt:

The research team at LMC monitors a 9.5 mile stretch of beach from March - October. Juno Beach is one of the world's most densely nested sea turtle beaches.

LMC’s research department has one of the longest-running sea turtle monitoring programs in the state of Florida. The program officially began when LMC founder Eleanor Fletcher received her permit from the state of Florida in 1969. Each season, the research team documents all sea turtle activities from March - October along 9.5 miles of beach from the northern Palm Beach County line south to John D. MacArthur Beach State Park.

LMC research biologists have one of the most comprehensive datasets in the world. These datasets are invaluable to scientists and local, national, and international coastal managers. They form the basis for conservation decisions used to promote the recovery of sea turtle populations not only in Florida, but world-wide.

CHECK OUT THE TURTLE TRACKER!

WLRN ENVIRONMENT : DILLY DALLY SEA TURTLE RETURNED TO OCEAN AFTER FLIPPER AMPUTATION   

OCEANA : PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES WITH LEGAL ACTION : 10% OF GLOBAL FISH CATCH IS DISCARDED

OCEANA CAMPAIGNS : SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES 

EXCERPT: Did you know that one of the most impactful ways to protect endangered ocean species is to prevent them from being unintentionally caught up in fishing gear?

About 10% of the world’s global fish catch is discarded. And each year, fishing gear kills or injures millions of non-targeted animals as bycatch, including sharks, whales, dolphins, fish, and sea turtles, some of which are vulnerable or endangered ocean species.

In recent years, Oceana has helped to ban the deadly shark fin trade in the United States and Canada. Oceana is continuing to work to reduce bycatch and protect important species like the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from destructive fishing practices and other human caused threats.

Oceana and our allies have won more than 75 victories to protect threatened and endangered ocean species, including sharks, sea turtles, and whales.Did you know that one of the most impactful ways to protect endangered ocean species is to prevent them from being unintentionally caught up in fishing gear?

About 10% of the world’s global fish catch is discarded. And each year, fishing gear kills or injures millions of non-targeted animals as bycatch, including sharks, whales, dolphins, fish, and sea turtles, some of which are vulnerable or endangered ocean species.

In recent years, Oceana has helped to ban the deadly shark fin trade in the United States and Canada. Oceana is continuing to work to reduce bycatch and protect important species like the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from destructive fishing practices and other human caused threats.

Oceana and our allies have won more than 75 victories to protect threatened and endangered ocean species, including sharks, sea turtles, and whales.

NOAA PRESENTS HAWAIIAN HAWKSBILL TURTLES

SEA TURTLES AS A KEYSTONE SPECIES : SEE TURTLES : WORKING IN CENTRAL AMERICA and THE CARIBBEAN : AN EXPANSIVE WEBSITE

"If a keystone species is removed from a habitat, the natural order can be disrupted, which impacts other wildlife and fauna in different ways."

SEE TURTLES

SEE TURTLES is a science-facts website that I know you will find fascinating and take some time with.  You will learn the things you can do to help protect this necessary species of marine animal.

Here are some excerpts from the site.

1. Don’t buy souvenirs or other items made from critically endangered hawksbill shell.

2. Help Heal The Climate: Climate change affects the health of coral reefs which are vital to the hawksbills survival. A warming planet also skews sex ratios in baby turtles

3.  Avoid eating seafood or choose responsibly caught seafood. Sea turtles are vulnerable to commercial fishing methods like trawling, longlines, and drift gillnets, becoming unwanted catch (also known as "bycatch") that is discarded like trash.

4.  Just say NO to plastics! Sea turtles and other ocean life mistake plastic as food and ingest it. An estimated that more than 100 million marine animals die each year as a result of eating or getting entangled in plastic.

7. Turtles dig the dark! Sea turtles need dark beaches for nesting and for navigating their way to the ocean. Light from beachfront development can deter females from coming ashore to nest as well as lead newly born hatchling away from the water and towards danger.

9. Choose sunscreen carefully. Chemicals in some types of sunscreen can damage coral reefs and pollute turtle habitat. Avoid any sunscreen with "oxybenzone" and look for brands labeled as "Reef Friendly" & avoid sprays that pollute the sand where turtles nest. 

NOAA PRINTABLE VALENTINES for the OCEAN CONSCIOUS

Free for you to download - NOAA Valentines....

Here's the link! NOAA EDU: DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE VALENTINES

ROSES ARE RED

THE OCEAN IS BLUE

THIS SEA TURTLE WANTED

TO SAY HI TO YOU!

MARINE MAMMAL STRANDING CENTER - ATLANTIC OCEAN : SEA MAMMALS and SEA TURTLES HEALED and RETURNED TO SEA : BEACHED WHALE INVESTIGATIONS

MARINE MAMMAL STRANDING CENTER  Dedicated to responding to marine mammals and sea turtles along all of New Jersey's waterways...  When an animal cannot be released, it is kept at the facility and given a place to live.

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Excerpt:  MMSC's Large Whale and Dolphin Response.

The Marine Mammal Stranding Center continues to be on the front line as the first responders during the recent increase in whale strandings that began in December 2022.  As a member of the Greater Atlantic Marine Mammal Stranding Network, we are the boots on the ground working together with or fellow network members to help find the answers.  The work that we perform is the first step in many that will bring us closer to understanding why we are seeing so may whale standings along the East Coast.

SEA TURTLES CAN TALK! GABRIEL JORGEWICH-COHEN'S RESEARCH PROVES IT and THE ORIGIN OF VOCALIZATION IN ANIMALS

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN : CHATTY TURTLES and THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL VOCALIZATION 

Listen to the clicks and grunts at this link.

Excerpt:  Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen:  I did fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon with a researcher that published one of these first papers showing that turtles can communicate acoustically, and that inspired me.  So I went back home, and I got a piece of equipment, and I started recording my own pets.  And I discovered that they were producing sounds as well, and the species I had were not known to produce sounds......

UNDERSIDE OF A TURTLE

 

NATURE CONSERVANCY : SEA TURTLE PROTECTION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN

NATURE CONVERVACY : SEA TURTLE CAMPAIGN - PACIFIC OCEAN 

The Mystery of sea turtle migration makes it difficult to save them.  Human's using their shells when they could do without add to the problem.  And sea turtles choke on plastic and got caught in nets.

Where do they go?

TURTLE: WHAT KIND OF TURTLE IS THIS? LEAVE THE ANSWER IN COMMENTS!

 

NOAA THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST... Three types of whales .. two types of turtles... 163 ON THE LIST

FISHERIES NOAA GOV : SPECIES

I dare you to check this list, pick one of the 163 whales, turtles, or fish on the list, and do more research!

LAND OR SEA DO NOT PAINT A TURTLE'S BACK

BOSTON CBS : NEW HAMPSHIRE FISH AND GAME : DO NOT PAINT TURTLES BACKS 

EXCERPT: ... turtles shells are living tissue and paint toxins can not only get into their bloodstream, it can make them more visible to predators.

GREEN SEA TURTLES

OCEAN SEA TURLES - SMITHSONIAN 

EXCERPT: Though often associated with the tropics, sea turtles are actually found in all of the world's oceans except for the polar seas.  Sea turtles have been revered by humans for millennia.  In fact, many creation stories in various world cultures feature tales of the world being built on the back of a sea turtle.

Today there are seven species of sea turtles in existence...

GREAT BARRIER REEF ORG - RESTORING CLIMATE CHANGE ARKS TO PROVIDE SAFE HOMES FOR WILDLIFE ; SEA TURTLE NESTING

BARRIER REEF ORG  Likened to climate change arks, Reef Islands provide a safe home for wild life such as sea turtles and sea birds to rest, feed, shelter, and breed.  Some islands are being brought back to life... The Great Barrier Reef Org is working on three islands at this time...

EXCERPT: A manta with a bright fuchsia pink belly visits Lady Elliot Island every year.  Nicknamed Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame, as far as the researchers know, he is the only one of his kind in the world, seen only at Lady Elliot Island.

SEA TURTLES

 

BLOOD DRIPPED AND THE SEA TURTLE AS IN ANGUISH AS DRINKING STRAW WAS PULLED FROM HIS NOSTRIL

DAILY MAIL - AGONY OF SEA TURTLE AS DRINKING STRAW IS PULLED OUT OF NOSE!

"Blood drips from the turtle's nose and the sea creature appears to be in a lot of pain throughout the entire ordeal..."

SEA TURLTES AND ELKHORN CORAL

SEA TURTLES and ELKHORN CORAL

 

SEA TURTLES

are among the sea creatures who are being killed by the massive oil spill in the 

GULF OF MEXICO.