Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: November 13, 2009
Summary: Haphazard development, in tandem with warmer temperatures and rising seas that many scientists link to global warming, have vastly diminished the Pacific turtle population.Even before scientists found temperatures creeping upward over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans’ penchant for eating turtle eggs, considered a delicacy here. But climate change may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has dwelled in the Pacific for 150 million years.
Response: It is sad to see another species die right before our eyes because of our way of life. When will people open their eyes and see that we are destroying the earth rapidly.
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