Green Sea Turtles

Chelonia mydas
IUCN Status: Endangered

Image from http://www.costarica-discover-it.com/images/green-sea-turtle.jpg

Green Sea Turtle Range

Image from http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/sea-turtle/images/map-green-sea-turtle.jpg

My graph data obtained was from http://thrivingoceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/impact_scores.jpg

Green sea turtles are one of the most wide spread species, they encounter a large amount of fisheries, thus making fisheries bycatch their #1 threat. Based on the photo below that shows the various debris extracted from a green sea turtle, it is clear why pollution is the second highest threat.

Garbage collected from a Green Sea Turtle:

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