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Bad news for leather back sea turtle; it's a local news
Topic Started: Aug 26 2013, 06:12 AM (705 Views)
Bill
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i read an article in a local newspaper today, and i was very sad:

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A female leather back sea turtle was found laying eggs on the beach near a seafood restaurant. the restaurant's owner was thrilled and called the authorities right away. this is very great news to the scientists and conservationist in Vietnam and the worlds, since the leather back sea turtle is one of the most endangered species of all. plus, it have been 8 years since anyone last seen a leather back sea turtle laying her eggs on the Vietnamese shore line. strict protection was set up to keep away anyone who ever have the idea of stealing any of those eggs. about 60 days after the eggs was laid, people have gotten really worry cause there were no hatchlings yet (the eggs are usually hatched after about 50 days), so they dig them up and discovered the tragedy, all 84 eggs are rotten because they were not fertilized by a male turtle. all the hope to increase the number of this endangered species and further studies about them, flushed down the toilet.

(roughly translated by me)
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Militant
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Aw, man. That's sad. :( I really hope to see some other means of saving them.
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Do we have none in captivity or no way of tracking them so we could try and set up some kind of breeding system? ):
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Mathius Tyra
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The life of this turtle is too secret due the lifestyle of living in deep pelagic. So, I doubt that we can raise some in captivity. :(

So sad about the news...
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Aug 26 2013, 09:45 AM.
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Poor turtles. This is sad. :(
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Bill
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The mother turtle was a very impressive speciement as well. It reached the lenghth of over 2 meters and weight up to 400 kilos! But here in vietnam we dont have the capability to make a good enough surrounding to keep it in captivity. So she was released back to the sea
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Furka
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i doubt leatherbacks can survive in captivity, so releasing it was the best thing to do.
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MarxRaptor
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The leatherback sea turtle can also be found here off the coast of Canada. They ought to start digging up the eggs & hatching them in captivity. Only one out of something like a thousand turtles ever survives, so if all the turtles could be raised to at least a juvenile age in captivity then imagine how much the population would increase.
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On the bright side, it looks like the people in the area took the right attitude about the turtles and were excited to help this female lay her eggs, even providing protection for them in the hopes that they'd hatch. That's progress, right?
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Well that's sad :(


I guess it's good what the people did about it
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Aug 28 2013, 01:34 PM
On the bright side, it looks like the in the area took the right attitude about the turtles and were excited to help this female lay her eggs, even providing protection for them in the hopes that they'd hatch. That's progress, right?
For an omnivorous nation, it's a progress indeed. But their native animal populations keep declining because of humans' insatiability.
And if the officials didn't know about the turtle it would surely be secretly eaten, together with eggs.

Elephas Don't Bump old Topics.
Edited by Furka, Feb 16 2014, 01:44 PM.
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