Dangers to the hatchlings on the beach

The amazing sea reptile which has seen ages and survived about hundred million years in this universe is under the danger of becoming extinct. And in order to protect sea turtles many precautions have been made.

The male and female turtles live in the marine and only the female will come to the sand in the beach when she is ready to lay the eggs. Now a female sea turtle is capable to lay more than one hundred eggs during a particular nestling season which is awesome, but only few of these little ones can hatch and reach the home to the sea. This tragedy is because of the dangers they face during the period of hatching.  Because of the development in the tourist industry every beaches have seen ample amount of changes like crabs, birds, drifting the footprints, new buildings filled with flashy lights, like these there are so many factors affecting it. 

An adult sea turtle really finds it very difficult these days to dig a nest to lay eggs, and after she lies she leaves them to hatch and moves back to sea. At this period of time humans hunt these eggs to consume or to sell in restaurants as delicious egg food, and sure it is the favorite for many tourists.  This is the main reason for this special sea reptiles becoming extinct. At times even some birds, huge crabs, of even animals like fox and dogs may eat and destroy them.

And at last when those poor little turtles hatch from the eggs and try to come to its home they face the next danger. Now these turtle hatch-lings each have a sense to move towards the direction where it is brighter and filled with light. And since they hatch usually in the nights the brighter side will be towards the sea and so the sea turtles easily finds their way into the ocean home. 

But there arise a danger at this point of time through the artificial lights from the buildings in the beach houses which are much brighter and so the turtle hatch-lings get astray and go towards the artificial lights. They might also get distracted by the dazzling lights of the cars, or campfires and thus go away from the sea. This process of moving in the opposite direction to the sea is known as disorientation. And disorientation may lead to death of the little ones.

Trading of rare species of sea turtles has been banned. And a number of nestling beaches have been protected these days and even the young turtles are reared, thus help and lead them into the sea.