• Kenya: Climate change and water sports join growing list of sea turtle threats
    online games

    Kenya: Climate change and water sports join growing list of sea turtle threats

    Kenyan waters are host to the green, loggerhead, hawksbill, leatherback and olive ridley turtles. The most frequently encountered off Tiwi and Diani beaches south of Mombasa are the hawksbill turtle and green turtles. Sometimes people here are lucky enough to get a rare sighting of loggerheads or leatherbacks. But these sea turtles face a multitude of obstacles to their survival. They are prey for commercial companies, or locals who harvest them for their meat, shells and oil. Other times they’re caught accidentally by fishermen and their habitats are dwindling. Two months after the turtles lay their eggs, the babies hatch. A few days after hatching, conservationists from Tiwi Turtle Police perform an excavation…

    Comments Off on Kenya: Climate change and water sports join growing list of sea turtle threats