9/25/12

You can help Green Turtles!

So for my family, when we're driving in Hawaii and we get slowed down driving up to the North Shore between Haleiwa and Waimea it's because we have hit "Turtle Town".  It's this beach that is so popular for the Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles (or Honu) to come up and sunbath. These are actually the same green turtles that are seen all over the tropical regions, in fact we have some due to come up on our beach this week to lay another nest!

Honus were placed listed on the Endangered Species Act by the US National Marine Fishers Services almost 30 years ago when their nesting population was about 60.  The Hawaiian Sea Turtle population has grown to 800 nesting females a year, but still not the 5,000 nesting females a year they had hoped for to remove them from the Endangered Species Act.  Please sign this petition by October 1st in order to keep the Hawaiian Sea Turtles population growing and in the ocean rather than quickly dwindling down by being slaughtered on public beaches and sold in restaurants and souvenir shops.

Again, here is the petition.

For more information on sea turtles and how to get involved at home look at SeaTurtles.org

Thanks for listening to me and all the support!

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