TURTLE STATS.
- Over 1,000 sea turtles are killed every year from plastic waste
- Over 4,600 sea turtles die from fishing nets and fishing hooks every year
- The oldest turtle in the world was 187 years old
- Females usually lay between 1 and 9 clutches of eggs per season
- Female green turtles may lay 1,900 to 2,300 eggs within a lifetime
- Leatherback turtles travel over 10,000 miles a year
- In New Zealand, we have 5 species of Sea Turtles
- A turtle can hold their breath under water for around 30 minutes
- turtles date back 220 million years ago making them older than both crocodiles and snakes.
Hi Maz,
ReplyDeleteWhat great information you have found. I didn't realise we had 5 species of turtle in New Zealand or that they date back that far.
I have been watching some of the wildlife programmes on netflix, turtles came up in one episode. The turtles in the programme had to go travel huge distances and across a main road to get to an appropriate nesting site, in a park! Needless to say, not all make it back to the sea.
On a positive note though, great work. I look forward to reading your next post.
Mrs Ferguson