Global warming is posing many problems to our environment and as it’s getting worse, it is said that species like the green turtles are increasingly at risk and they may extinct within 100 years.
Change in climate contributes to stronger tropical cyclones which are very likely to kill or wash away the green turtles.
Ph.D. candidate David Pike and his fellow researchers from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney have studied around 40,000 sea turtles nests on an uninhabited 24-mile stretch of beach along the Atlantic coast of Florida.
For around ten years the researchers surveyed the beach for turtles emerging to lay eggs or for nesting at the beginning in April and end in late September. This nesting season coincides with tropical storm season, which runs from June to November.
Leatherback turtles and loggerhead turtles nest and hatch earlier to storm season but the nesting season of green turtles occurs during Florida’s tropical cyclone season, which means that their nests and the developing eggs are at risk of being washed away and killed.
The report of the finding is online in the journal Oecologia.
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Source: Discovery
