Showing posts with label sea turtles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea turtles. Show all posts
Friday, May 7, 2021
I played a chess game against someone in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. I looked it up. Orangutans and turtles live there and that's a good thing. It would be a disaster if these creatures went extinct .
East Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas like Kutai National Park, home to orangutans. The Derawan Islands, off the north coast, have reef dive sites and turtle-nesting grounds. Besides Derawan, notable islands in this archipelago are Sangalaki, Maratua and Kakaban, known for its jellyfish-filled saltwater lake.
Monday, April 29, 2019
I saw a video of a young sea turtle sleeping under water. How is that possible? They have to breathe above the water.
I looked it up. It's amazing what other creatures can do and what we can't do.
"As sea turtles are air-breathing reptiles, they need to surface to breathe. Sea turtles can hold their breath for several hours, depending upon the level of activity. A resting or sleeping turtle can remain underwater for 4-7 hours."
Natural Selection makes this stuff possible.
"As sea turtles are air-breathing reptiles, they need to surface to breathe. Sea turtles can hold their breath for several hours, depending upon the level of activity. A resting or sleeping turtle can remain underwater for 4-7 hours."
Natural Selection makes this stuff possible.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Global warming is out of control. It might be too late to fix the problem. For example a nest of 100 sea turtles often has 100 females and zero males. Where I live in south Florida our sea turtles could become extinct.
Warmer weather is turning turtles on this South Florida beach female. Scientists will be watching whether the gender imbalance affects turtles' future survival.
Thanks to warmer temperatures, nearly all of the baby sea turtles hatching on a South Florida beach are turning out female.
The dominance of the female reptiles on Boca Raton’s beaches appears to be the result of global warming, according to a Florida Atlantic University researcher whose new study was published in the journal Endangered Species Research.
That could mean trouble for these hatchlings in about 20 years, when today’s baby turtles start looking for mates and find a dating pool that’s drying up.
Unlike humans, the gender of sea turtles isn’t determined by sex chromosomes. It’s the temperature outside of turtle eggs while they incubate underground that plays a role in the gender, with only females being born when the nests heat up.
Jeanette Wyneken, a biological sciences professor at Florida Atlantic University, and her team have studied underground sea turtle nests on Boca’s beaches since 2002. They documented temperatures and rainfall and collected hatchlings to determine the gender.
Wyneken’s published study uses data collected from 2010 through 2013. She has continued collecting more turtle-nest data since then.
“I haven’t found a male hatchling in three years,” said Wyneken, who directs the university’s marine biology lab at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.
After examining thousands of hatchlings over the years, Wyneken estimates that out of every 100 female sea turtles, she’s found one male. Right now, there are 285 hatchlings wriggling in water-filled compartments in her lab.
“One male in five [females] doesn’t sound too bad,” Wynecken said. “One male in 100 sounds awful — that would be a pretty tired boy.”
Figuring out a sea turtle’s gender is not as easy as just flipping the turtle over.
After they hatch on the beach in Boca, the baby turtles are taken to Wyneken’s lab. There, they’re allowed to mature for four to six months — until they’re old enough to undergo laparoscopic surgery. That lets Wyneken peek at whether there are girl or boy parts in there.
A handful of males could have gone to the ocean without being found by Wyneken’s team, but enough hatchlings were gathered from each of the monitored nests to be considered a representative sample.
Biologists have determined that nest temperature during the egg incubation is key in determining whether males or females emerge from the nest.
Wyneken’s data found that males hatched only in the early hatching season — April or May — or the last hatching in August.
The nests that produced some males had temperatures ranging from 74 degrees to 95 degrees during the incubation period. In contrast, the majority of nests that produced 100 percent females generally had 80-degree lows and 95-degree highs during the incubation period.
There’s an abundance of female baby sea turtles being found in other parts of the world, too.
In a new report this month in the journal Current Biology, researchers found that heat was making nearly all of the young turtles near Australia’s east coast turn out female. Of the young turtles sampled, 99 percent were female. In contrast, 87 percent of mature turtles were female.
Instead of performing surgery for that study, researchers used new technology that measures turtle hormones for large-scale gender testing.
The study’s researchers, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were convinced climate change was the reason for all the females.
The studies fall amid a backdrop of new reports that the temperatures continue to climb.
Government scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday that 2017 was among the warmest years on record and the last four years collectively represent the hottest span in recorded history.
The expectation is that the sea turtle population is going to keep increasing before a decline happens in the coming decades. For now, counts and studies suggest that having more females than male sea turtles might be, in the short term, resulting in more nests — and hatchlings, Wyneken said.
State data from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows loggerhead nests in Florida have increased by 34 percent between 2012 and 2016, the latest year that data is available.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration changed the status of green turtles in Mexico and Florida from “endangered” to “threatened” in 2016, as populations showed signs of rebounding.
Still, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has concerns that the higher temperatures pose an immediate threat to turtle survival even before the full results of females dominating become clear.
“A more recent concern is that temperatures are increasing so much that they are reaching lethal values so there is a decrease in hatchling success, [meaning] fewer hatchlings are emerging,” an conservation commission spokeswoman said. Admittedly, not much is known about the sex life of turtles, Wynecken said.
She points out that turtles have proven to be one of the most adaptable species to walk the earth — considering they walked along with dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
“They have some ability to adapt and respond,” she said, pointing out that they’ve gone through ice ages and hot periods. “But we don’t know if they [have] enough resilience to respond now.”
For Wynecken, the findings about turtle-gender ratios points out a problem that needs attention, even though the results of this gender bias might not be seen until 50 years from now.
Turtles are part of the ecosystem and their disappearance could affect parts of the food chain going from the animals that eat turtles right down to the sand, which is enriched by the fragments of turtle eggshells.
“We also have to be solving the problem of what’s making the beaches too hot to begin with — that’s a bigger deal and that’s a global response,” she said.
The dominance of the female reptiles on Boca Raton’s beaches appears to be the result of global warming, according to a Florida Atlantic University researcher whose new study was published in the journal Endangered Species Research.
That could mean trouble for these hatchlings in about 20 years, when today’s baby turtles start looking for mates and find a dating pool that’s drying up.
Unlike humans, the gender of sea turtles isn’t determined by sex chromosomes. It’s the temperature outside of turtle eggs while they incubate underground that plays a role in the gender, with only females being born when the nests heat up.
Jeanette Wyneken, a biological sciences professor at Florida Atlantic University, and her team have studied underground sea turtle nests on Boca’s beaches since 2002. They documented temperatures and rainfall and collected hatchlings to determine the gender.
Wyneken’s published study uses data collected from 2010 through 2013. She has continued collecting more turtle-nest data since then.
“I haven’t found a male hatchling in three years,” said Wyneken, who directs the university’s marine biology lab at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.
After examining thousands of hatchlings over the years, Wyneken estimates that out of every 100 female sea turtles, she’s found one male. Right now, there are 285 hatchlings wriggling in water-filled compartments in her lab.
“One male in five [females] doesn’t sound too bad,” Wynecken said. “One male in 100 sounds awful — that would be a pretty tired boy.”
Figuring out a sea turtle’s gender is not as easy as just flipping the turtle over.
After they hatch on the beach in Boca, the baby turtles are taken to Wyneken’s lab. There, they’re allowed to mature for four to six months — until they’re old enough to undergo laparoscopic surgery. That lets Wyneken peek at whether there are girl or boy parts in there.
A handful of males could have gone to the ocean without being found by Wyneken’s team, but enough hatchlings were gathered from each of the monitored nests to be considered a representative sample.
Biologists have determined that nest temperature during the egg incubation is key in determining whether males or females emerge from the nest.
Wyneken’s data found that males hatched only in the early hatching season — April or May — or the last hatching in August.
The nests that produced some males had temperatures ranging from 74 degrees to 95 degrees during the incubation period. In contrast, the majority of nests that produced 100 percent females generally had 80-degree lows and 95-degree highs during the incubation period.
There’s an abundance of female baby sea turtles being found in other parts of the world, too.
In a new report this month in the journal Current Biology, researchers found that heat was making nearly all of the young turtles near Australia’s east coast turn out female. Of the young turtles sampled, 99 percent were female. In contrast, 87 percent of mature turtles were female.
Instead of performing surgery for that study, researchers used new technology that measures turtle hormones for large-scale gender testing.
The study’s researchers, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were convinced climate change was the reason for all the females.
The studies fall amid a backdrop of new reports that the temperatures continue to climb.
Government scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday that 2017 was among the warmest years on record and the last four years collectively represent the hottest span in recorded history.
The expectation is that the sea turtle population is going to keep increasing before a decline happens in the coming decades. For now, counts and studies suggest that having more females than male sea turtles might be, in the short term, resulting in more nests — and hatchlings, Wyneken said.
State data from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows loggerhead nests in Florida have increased by 34 percent between 2012 and 2016, the latest year that data is available.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration changed the status of green turtles in Mexico and Florida from “endangered” to “threatened” in 2016, as populations showed signs of rebounding.
Still, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has concerns that the higher temperatures pose an immediate threat to turtle survival even before the full results of females dominating become clear.
“A more recent concern is that temperatures are increasing so much that they are reaching lethal values so there is a decrease in hatchling success, [meaning] fewer hatchlings are emerging,” an conservation commission spokeswoman said. Admittedly, not much is known about the sex life of turtles, Wynecken said.
She points out that turtles have proven to be one of the most adaptable species to walk the earth — considering they walked along with dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
“They have some ability to adapt and respond,” she said, pointing out that they’ve gone through ice ages and hot periods. “But we don’t know if they [have] enough resilience to respond now.”
For Wynecken, the findings about turtle-gender ratios points out a problem that needs attention, even though the results of this gender bias might not be seen until 50 years from now.
Turtles are part of the ecosystem and their disappearance could affect parts of the food chain going from the animals that eat turtles right down to the sand, which is enriched by the fragments of turtle eggshells.
“We also have to be solving the problem of what’s making the beaches too hot to begin with — that’s a bigger deal and that’s a global response,” she said.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
We want these numerous species to still be here 1,000 years from now but most of them could be wiped out in this century. Americans can help by never voting for a Republican. In other countries kill the poachers and then hang them from a tree to rot to help other poachers understand. Habitat is being destroyed. Christian assholes don't care because they think these creatures were magically created for us to kill. The worst problem is Asia where poachers want to wipe out species while they still can. Then they will find another species to destroy. These people need to be killed. No trial. Just kill them. Orangutans are very closely related to us. They could be wiped out very soon. Kill the fucking assholes. Just kill them. One more thing: FUCK YOU TRUMP.
Amur Leopard Panthera pardus orientalis Critically Endangered
Black Rhino Diceros bicornis Critically Endangered
Bornean Orangutan Pongo pygmaeus Critically Endangered
Cross River Gorilla Gorilla gorilla diehli Critically Endangered
Eastern Lowland Gorilla Gorilla beringei graueri Critically Endangered
Hawksbill Turtle Eretmochelys imbricata Critically Endangered
Javan Rhino Rhinoceros sondaicus Critically Endangered
Malayan Tiger Panthera tigris jacksoni Critically Endangered
Mountain Gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei Critically Endangered
Orangutan Pongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeus Critically Endangered
Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis Critically Endangered
South China Tiger Panthera tigris amoyensis Critically Endangered
Sumatran Elephant Elephas maximus sumatranus Critically Endangered
Sumatran Orangutan Pongo abelii Critically Endangered
Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Critically Endangered
Sumatran Tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae Critically Endangered
Vaquita Phocoena sinus Critically Endangered
Western Lowland Gorilla Gorilla gorilla gorilla Critically Endangered
Yangtze Finless Porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis ssp. asiaeorientalis Critically Endangered
African Wild Dog Lycaon pictus Endangered
Amur Tiger Panthera tigris altaica Endangered
Asian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus Endangered
Bengal Tiger Panthera tigris tigris Endangered
Black-footed Ferret Mustela nigripes Endangered
Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus Endangered
Bluefin Tuna Thunnus spp Endangered
Bonobo Pan paniscus Endangered
Borneo Pygmy Elephant Elephas maximus borneensis Endangered
Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes Endangered
Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus Endangered
Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus Endangered
Ganges River Dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica Endangered
Green Turtle Chelonia mydas Endangered
Hector's Dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori Endangered
Humphead Wrasse Cheilinus undulatus Endangered
Indian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus Endangered
Indochinese Tiger Panthera tigris corbetti Endangered
Indus River Dolphin Platanista minor Endangered
North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis Endangered
Red Panda Ailurus fulgens Endangered
Sea Lions Zalophus wollebaeki Endangered
Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis Endangered
Sri Lankan Elephant Elephas maximus maximus Endangered
Tiger Panthera tigris Endangered
Whale Balaenoptera, Balaena, Eschrichtius, and Eubalaen Endangered
African Elephant Loxodonta africana Vulnerable
Bigeye Tuna Thunnus obesus Vulnerable
Black Spider Monkey Ateles paniscus Vulnerable
Dugong Dugong dugon Vulnerable
Forest Elephant Vulnerable
Giant Panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca Vulnerable
Giant Tortoise Vulnerable
Great White Shark Carcharodon carcharias Vulnerable
Greater One-Horned Rhino Rhinoceros unicornis Vulnerable
Hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius Vulnerable
Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris Vulnerable
Leatherback Turtle Dermochelys coriacea Vulnerable
Loggerhead Turtle Caretta caretta Vulnerable
Marine Iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus Vulnerable
Olive Ridley Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea Vulnerable
Polar Bear Ursus maritimus Vulnerable
Savanna Elephant Loxodonta africana africana Vulnerable
Sea Turtle Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae families Vulnerable
Snow Leopard Panthera uncia Vulnerable
Southern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome Vulnerable
Whale Shark Rhincodon typus Vulnerable
Albacore Tuna Thunnus alalunga Near Threatened
Beluga Delphinapterus leucas Near Threatened
Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus Near Threatened
Jaguar Panthera onca Near Threatened
Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus Near Threatened
Narwhal Monodon monoceros Near Threatened
Plains Bison Bison bison bison Near Threatened
White Rhino Ceratotherium simum Near Threatened
Yellowfin Tuna Thunnus albacares Near Threatened
Arctic Fox Vulpes lagopus Least Concern
Arctic Wolf Canis lupus arctos Least Concern
Bowhead Whale Balaena mysticetus Least Concern
Brown Bear Ursus arctos Least Concern
Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncates Least Concern
Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus Least Concern
Macaw Ara ararauna Least Concern
Pronghorn Antilocarpa americana Least Concern
Skipjack Tuna Katsuwonus pelamis Least Concern
Swift Fox Vulpes velox Least Concern
Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus sp. Least Concern
Amazon River Dolphin Inia geoffrensis
Dolphins and Porpoises
Elephant
Gorilla Gorilla gorilla and Gorilla beringei
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus
Pacific Salmon
Pangolin
Penguin Spheniscidae
Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates species
Rhino
Seals
Shark
Sloth
Tuna Thunnus and Katsuwonus species
Black Rhino Diceros bicornis Critically Endangered
Bornean Orangutan Pongo pygmaeus Critically Endangered
Cross River Gorilla Gorilla gorilla diehli Critically Endangered
Eastern Lowland Gorilla Gorilla beringei graueri Critically Endangered
Hawksbill Turtle Eretmochelys imbricata Critically Endangered
Javan Rhino Rhinoceros sondaicus Critically Endangered
Malayan Tiger Panthera tigris jacksoni Critically Endangered
Mountain Gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei Critically Endangered
Orangutan Pongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeus Critically Endangered
Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis Critically Endangered
South China Tiger Panthera tigris amoyensis Critically Endangered
Sumatran Elephant Elephas maximus sumatranus Critically Endangered
Sumatran Orangutan Pongo abelii Critically Endangered
Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Critically Endangered
Sumatran Tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae Critically Endangered
Vaquita Phocoena sinus Critically Endangered
Western Lowland Gorilla Gorilla gorilla gorilla Critically Endangered
Yangtze Finless Porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis ssp. asiaeorientalis Critically Endangered
African Wild Dog Lycaon pictus Endangered
Amur Tiger Panthera tigris altaica Endangered
Asian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus Endangered
Bengal Tiger Panthera tigris tigris Endangered
Black-footed Ferret Mustela nigripes Endangered
Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus Endangered
Bluefin Tuna Thunnus spp Endangered
Bonobo Pan paniscus Endangered
Borneo Pygmy Elephant Elephas maximus borneensis Endangered
Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes Endangered
Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus Endangered
Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus Endangered
Ganges River Dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica Endangered
Green Turtle Chelonia mydas Endangered
Hector's Dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori Endangered
Humphead Wrasse Cheilinus undulatus Endangered
Indian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus Endangered
Indochinese Tiger Panthera tigris corbetti Endangered
Indus River Dolphin Platanista minor Endangered
North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis Endangered
Red Panda Ailurus fulgens Endangered
Sea Lions Zalophus wollebaeki Endangered
Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis Endangered
Sri Lankan Elephant Elephas maximus maximus Endangered
Tiger Panthera tigris Endangered
Whale Balaenoptera, Balaena, Eschrichtius, and Eubalaen Endangered
African Elephant Loxodonta africana Vulnerable
Bigeye Tuna Thunnus obesus Vulnerable
Black Spider Monkey Ateles paniscus Vulnerable
Dugong Dugong dugon Vulnerable
Forest Elephant Vulnerable
Giant Panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca Vulnerable
Giant Tortoise Vulnerable
Great White Shark Carcharodon carcharias Vulnerable
Greater One-Horned Rhino Rhinoceros unicornis Vulnerable
Hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius Vulnerable
Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris Vulnerable
Leatherback Turtle Dermochelys coriacea Vulnerable
Loggerhead Turtle Caretta caretta Vulnerable
Marine Iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus Vulnerable
Olive Ridley Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea Vulnerable
Polar Bear Ursus maritimus Vulnerable
Savanna Elephant Loxodonta africana africana Vulnerable
Sea Turtle Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae families Vulnerable
Snow Leopard Panthera uncia Vulnerable
Southern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome Vulnerable
Whale Shark Rhincodon typus Vulnerable
Albacore Tuna Thunnus alalunga Near Threatened
Beluga Delphinapterus leucas Near Threatened
Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus Near Threatened
Jaguar Panthera onca Near Threatened
Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus Near Threatened
Narwhal Monodon monoceros Near Threatened
Plains Bison Bison bison bison Near Threatened
White Rhino Ceratotherium simum Near Threatened
Yellowfin Tuna Thunnus albacares Near Threatened
Arctic Fox Vulpes lagopus Least Concern
Arctic Wolf Canis lupus arctos Least Concern
Bowhead Whale Balaena mysticetus Least Concern
Brown Bear Ursus arctos Least Concern
Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncates Least Concern
Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus Least Concern
Macaw Ara ararauna Least Concern
Pronghorn Antilocarpa americana Least Concern
Skipjack Tuna Katsuwonus pelamis Least Concern
Swift Fox Vulpes velox Least Concern
Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus sp. Least Concern
Amazon River Dolphin Inia geoffrensis
Dolphins and Porpoises
Elephant
Gorilla Gorilla gorilla and Gorilla beringei
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus
Pacific Salmon
Pangolin
Penguin Spheniscidae
Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates species
Rhino
Seals
Shark
Sloth
Tuna Thunnus and Katsuwonus species
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Weather report, 3 AM, Tuesday July 16, 2013 at a south Florida beach.
It was the middle of the night. Nobody was on the beach. It was warm. It was extremely windy. We were getting some rain. It was very dark. All lights were out because this is turtle nesting season. The ocean was making a lot of noise. Huge waves repeatedly crashed on to the beach.
It was wonderful.
It was wonderful.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
In Malaysia Muslim scum eat the eggs of leatherback sea turtles, a species threatened with extinction.
Early this morning I was in the garage of a building near the ocean and I found a baby leatherback sea turtle. I carried it to the ocean to save its life. Sea turtles, when they hatch on a beach at night, are suppose to be attracted to the moon over the ocean, but too often they walk towards lights illegally turned on at buildings near the beach. In this case the beach side of the building was blacked out but still at least one of the hundred baby turtles went the wrong way. Fortunately I found it, I recognized it, and I knew what to do with it which was to get it to the edge of the ocean immediately. That baby turtle now has a 1% chance of surviving instead of no chance.
To get the photo of a baby leatherback (the sea turtles most likely to go extinct) I found this website where I read about the Muslim assholes of Malaysia who completely wiped out the leatherback turtles in their area because they aggressively searched for and ate the eggs. Where there used to be 10,000 leatherback sea turtle nests every year there are now virtually zero nests a year. Another reason to throw Muslim scum off this planet.
For more information about endangered sea turtles please see 4 posts at http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/sea%20turtles.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Light pollution kills baby sea turtles. Stupid assholes don't care.
Please see my other two posts about endangered sea turtles at Idiots destroy 100 eggs from an endangered leatherback sea turtle. They belong in prison. and at Every human ape has the moral responsibility to do everything possible to save species threatened with extinction.
Palm Beach County, a bit north of where I live near the southeast Florida coast, already bans lights facing the beach during sea turtle hatching season (May 1st to October 31st). They now plan to force everyone within a few miles from the shore to dim their lights. After baby sea turtles hatch they are attracted to the light of the moon over the ocean so they crawl to the sea where they will spend the rest of their lives. Out of 100 eggs there will be only about one sea turtle which will survive to become an adult.
If the baby sea turtles see lights from the human ape species they will crawl inland instead of to the ocean and they will die, all 100 of them. The hotels and condos by the beach now turn off their lights but this hasn't been good enough. There is too much light pollution from miles away so now Palm Beach County and hopefully other counties will put an end to these unnecessary lights. The turtles will then be able to find their way to the ocean and even the human residents will benefit from being able to see many more stars at night.
Of course there are some fucking assholes who don't mind wiping out an entire species so they are not inconvenienced by less light. These subhumans need to be tortured and killed.
The rest of the post is a copy and paste job from a May 28, 2012 Fort Lauderdale, Florida newspaper at Saving sea turtles could mean lowered lights — miles from shore.
Sky glow is a growing problem in Broward County as well, particularly in downtown Fort Lauderdale and Port Everglades, said Richard WhiteCloud, head of Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, a group of volunteers that protect nests in Broward.
"They like to make the skyscrapers look good from I-95," WhiteCloud said. "I understand they want the city to be lit up like the Wizard of Oz and Emerald City, but they don't understand the impact."
Jay Goodart, general sales manager at a Toyota dealership on Federal Highway in Deerfield Beach, said it was nice of people to try to save sea turtles, "but business has got to run."
The bright lights at his lot are meant to protect the safety of customers who prefer to shop at night, Goodart said. "It's also for security, so we don't have people [thieves] crawling around the lot at night."
Efforts to save the hatchlings — which are born to follow the moon to the sea, but instead become disoriented by bright lights and follow them inland to their deaths — have already led to lowered lights on beachfronts. Now environmentalists want cities and businesses to lower the lights as far as three to five miles inland.
Palm Beach County is working with cities to change building codes to require that new buildings have lighting fixtures with targeted beams that limit the spillover glow. The next step would be encouraging retrofits of existing lights shining on large parking lots.
Even under ideal circumstances, the turtles' odds for survival are dismal: Only 1 percent of about 1.3 million born on Palm Beach County's shores each year survive.
Once baby turtles break out of their shells, dig out of the sand and emerge onto the beach, their little bodies have a finite amount of energy left to make the trek across the sand, into the surf and out to sea.
New Yorkers Lyn and Bruce Rosensweig, in Boca Raton for a wedding, liked the idea of curbing South Florida's urban glow.
"I think it would be good for the turtles, and the people too," Lyn Rosensweig said. "Who wants to see all those lights?"
In addition to a public awareness campaign, local government could consider offering tax-reduction incentives to businesses that take on the additional expense of retrofitting lights to make them more turtle-friendly, said Jennifer Bistyga, who administers Boca Raton coastal projects.
Businesses that take steps to limit "light trespass" could also be recognized with awards or designations acknowledging their environmentally friendly efforts.
"They are not going to make these changes on their own," Bistyga said. "The bottom line is money."
Palm Beach County, a bit north of where I live near the southeast Florida coast, already bans lights facing the beach during sea turtle hatching season (May 1st to October 31st). They now plan to force everyone within a few miles from the shore to dim their lights. After baby sea turtles hatch they are attracted to the light of the moon over the ocean so they crawl to the sea where they will spend the rest of their lives. Out of 100 eggs there will be only about one sea turtle which will survive to become an adult.
If the baby sea turtles see lights from the human ape species they will crawl inland instead of to the ocean and they will die, all 100 of them. The hotels and condos by the beach now turn off their lights but this hasn't been good enough. There is too much light pollution from miles away so now Palm Beach County and hopefully other counties will put an end to these unnecessary lights. The turtles will then be able to find their way to the ocean and even the human residents will benefit from being able to see many more stars at night.
Of course there are some fucking assholes who don't mind wiping out an entire species so they are not inconvenienced by less light. These subhumans need to be tortured and killed.
The rest of the post is a copy and paste job from a May 28, 2012 Fort Lauderdale, Florida newspaper at Saving sea turtles could mean lowered lights — miles from shore.
Saving sea turtles could mean lowered lights — miles from shore
Dimming
the lights along the coastline hasn't been enough to save endangered
sea turtles, so now plans are afoot to lower the lights at everything
from car dealerships to football stadiums miles from shore in Palm Beach County.
The proposed dim zone could stretch all the way to Interstate 95 in some areas and encompass Mizner Park, downtown Boca Raton and several car dealerships along Federal Highway.
Some think it's a worthy adjustment for a good cause. Others think its nuts.
The Maroone Nissan dealership off Federal Highway in Delray Beach keeps its parking lot lights on through dawn, said Christopher McCray, general manager.
"There's no dim switch," he said. "Everyone knows that what keeps the criminals away is keeping the place lit up like a Christmas tree."
The proposed dim zone could stretch all the way to Interstate 95 in some areas and encompass Mizner Park, downtown Boca Raton and several car dealerships along Federal Highway.
Some think it's a worthy adjustment for a good cause. Others think its nuts.
The Maroone Nissan dealership off Federal Highway in Delray Beach keeps its parking lot lights on through dawn, said Christopher McCray, general manager.
"There's no dim switch," he said. "Everyone knows that what keeps the criminals away is keeping the place lit up like a Christmas tree."
Sky glow is a growing problem in Broward County as well, particularly in downtown Fort Lauderdale and Port Everglades, said Richard WhiteCloud, head of Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, a group of volunteers that protect nests in Broward.
"They like to make the skyscrapers look good from I-95," WhiteCloud said. "I understand they want the city to be lit up like the Wizard of Oz and Emerald City, but they don't understand the impact."
Jay Goodart, general sales manager at a Toyota dealership on Federal Highway in Deerfield Beach, said it was nice of people to try to save sea turtles, "but business has got to run."
The bright lights at his lot are meant to protect the safety of customers who prefer to shop at night, Goodart said. "It's also for security, so we don't have people [thieves] crawling around the lot at night."
Efforts to save the hatchlings — which are born to follow the moon to the sea, but instead become disoriented by bright lights and follow them inland to their deaths — have already led to lowered lights on beachfronts. Now environmentalists want cities and businesses to lower the lights as far as three to five miles inland.
Palm Beach County is working with cities to change building codes to require that new buildings have lighting fixtures with targeted beams that limit the spillover glow. The next step would be encouraging retrofits of existing lights shining on large parking lots.
Even under ideal circumstances, the turtles' odds for survival are dismal: Only 1 percent of about 1.3 million born on Palm Beach County's shores each year survive.
Once baby turtles break out of their shells, dig out of the sand and emerge onto the beach, their little bodies have a finite amount of energy left to make the trek across the sand, into the surf and out to sea.
Ideally
they hatch at night, which helps them avoid raccoons and other
predators. If so, they rely on the light from the night sky bouncing off
the water to guide them out to sea.
But too often, the man-made glow to the west lures the turtles in the wrong direction, over dunes and into streets. Turtle monitors sometimes arrive in the morning to see tiny turtle tracks leading from the nest, in the opposite direction of the ocean.
Palm Beach County officials expect it to take years to spread the message and push back the urban glow far enough for turtles to be able to focus on the natural nighttime shine off the water. For public outreach, officials plan to use bus signs, brochures, stickers and even temporary tattoos with the message "Dark Skies Save Sea Turtles' Lives."
"We've gone a long way with dealing with direct light on the beach," said Daniel Bates, county environmental director "But we are still getting [turtle] disorientation because of the sky glow behind it."
But too often, the man-made glow to the west lures the turtles in the wrong direction, over dunes and into streets. Turtle monitors sometimes arrive in the morning to see tiny turtle tracks leading from the nest, in the opposite direction of the ocean.
Palm Beach County officials expect it to take years to spread the message and push back the urban glow far enough for turtles to be able to focus on the natural nighttime shine off the water. For public outreach, officials plan to use bus signs, brochures, stickers and even temporary tattoos with the message "Dark Skies Save Sea Turtles' Lives."
"We've gone a long way with dealing with direct light on the beach," said Daniel Bates, county environmental director "But we are still getting [turtle] disorientation because of the sky glow behind it."
New Yorkers Lyn and Bruce Rosensweig, in Boca Raton for a wedding, liked the idea of curbing South Florida's urban glow.
"I think it would be good for the turtles, and the people too," Lyn Rosensweig said. "Who wants to see all those lights?"
In addition to a public awareness campaign, local government could consider offering tax-reduction incentives to businesses that take on the additional expense of retrofitting lights to make them more turtle-friendly, said Jennifer Bistyga, who administers Boca Raton coastal projects.
Businesses that take steps to limit "light trespass" could also be recognized with awards or designations acknowledging their environmentally friendly efforts.
"They are not going to make these changes on their own," Bistyga said. "The bottom line is money."
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Idiots destroy 100 eggs from an endangered leatherback sea turtle. They belong in prison.
I live a bit west of Pompano Beach on south Florida's east coast. All sea turtles are endangered but the leatherback turtles are most at risk of going extinct. When they enter a beach to lay 100 eggs these Florida residents who should know better came within ten feet of this turtle and made lots of noise. They are suppose to stay at least 50 yards away and shut the fuck up. The turtle noticed the harassment and left without laying her eggs. The photo shows the priceless turtle leaving the beach as the stupid assholes who are responsible for the massacre of her eggs take pictures.
The news article said "Not to worry the turtle will lay her eggs elsewhere." but according to a biologist I talked to that's not what happens. After being chased away from the beach by dozens of fucking morons the turtle lays her 100 eggs in the ocean and they all die. Remember this irreplaceable species is threatened with extinction, but these worthless apes apparently don't care. A member of the Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program was there and she had the authority to tell the retards to shut up and back off 50 yards but apparently she did nothing. Amazing stupidity.
This is genocide. These murderers should be hung from a rope.
Please see my other post about threatened sea turtles at Every human ape has the moral responsibility to do everything possible to save species threatened with extinction.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Every human ape has the moral responsibility to do everything possible to save species threatened with extinction.
The evolution of the modern human ape species was a disaster for the planet earth and the creatures who live here.
I live near the east coast of south Florida. I have met biologists who are working hard to protect our sea turtles from human assholes (also known as Christians).
I unfortunately have experience saving baby sea turtles from certain death because of a malfunctioning light in a condo building. The light had a motion sensor that was suppose to turn the beach-side light on for only one minute when a resident was walking a dog at night. Instead the light stayed on permanently, causing one hundred baby turtles to walk to the condo light instead of the moon over the ocean. The problem was not my fault because if it was up to me that light would have been disconnected during turtle season (May thru October). We had to carry several baby sea turtles to the ocean. I hope we saved all of them but I doubt it.
The experience taught me to gently pick up the baby turtles with finger and thumb on both sides of the shell, then take the creature to the edge of the ocean, point it towards the water, and place it close enough to the water so that the next wave sucks it in to the sea.
According to the biologists I talked to, in addition to unnecessary lights another problem (again thanks to human idiots) is tourists (or residents who should know better) who get too close to a giant sea turtle when she leaves the ocean to lay her eggs in the sand. They frighten the mother and she returns to the ocean, lays her eggs in the water, and the world has just lost 100 baby turtles thanks to the worthless human race.
If you live on the east coast in south Florida, or if you plan to take a vacation here between May and October, you need to do the following (I'm talking to you, Mr. and Ms. Christian retard).
There must be a complete blackout on the east side of your condo or hotel at the beach. That means thick curtains if you're going to have your lights on at night. And that means absolutely no outside lights on, not even for one minute, on the east side of your building.
On the beach you will notice small areas that have been marked with stakes and ribbons. That means there's a turtle nest under the sand there, and you must never disturb it.
If you have the good luck of seeing a huge turtle leave the ocean to lay her eggs, you need to keep an extremely huge distance from that future mother, or else you will be responsible for the murder of 100 priceless endangered turtles, and for that the penalty should be torture and execution.
If all 100 baby turtles make it successfully to the sea, their chances of surviving long enough to reproduce are very slim. Hopefully at least one of them lives a long time.
Please take your vacation here. We need your money. But if you do anything to harm our sea turtles, you will be sorry for it if I catch you.
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