Save the Loggerhead

What do you think about when you go the supermarket? Maybe, will this be enough food, what are we going to have for dinner? But, I'm pretty sure none of you think about loggerhead sea turtles when you're at the supermarket, right?

The loggerhead is a threatened species. It is 1 of 6 remaining sea turtles species in the United States. What you don't know is that, some of what you buy at the supermarket, ends up in the oceans; that includes plastic bags and six pack rings. More than often these turtles and others mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, one of their prime foods. This will kill them if they end up eating a plastic bag.

In the past decade the loggerhead species has seen a scary decline of its species. In the North Pacific the poplulation of loggerheads has signifantly dropped by 80%. In the Northwest Atlantic, their most popular breeding spot, a decline of 40% has been seen. Tying, these two paragraphs together, in the North Pacific, as some of you might now, there is the infamous North Pacific Gyre. A ginormous mass of trash, collecting a little bit more of trash each day. In this gyre there are plastic bags, and where is the most significant drop of loggerhead sea turtles? Easy, the North Pacific. Coincident? I think not.

Luckily, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the National Marine Fisheries Service, have realized this dramatic change and have proposed to change the status of the loggerhead sea turtle, from threatend to endangered. This will shine a ray of hope down on the dwindling species of the loggerhead sea turtle!

Want to make a difference? Sign the petition to change the loggerhead from threatend to endangered here: save the loggerhead sea turtle.