Book: Saving Turtles
Author: Sue Carstairs
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A behind-the-scenes look at a hospital for severely injured turtles.
Turtles have been around for 220 million years -- longer than dinosaurs. But now their time might be running out. Of the roughly 300 species worldwide, more than half are threatened with extinction. Freshwater, marine and land turtles are all affected. And their biggest threat is us!
As the human race grows and expands on the planet, turtles are losing their homes, suffering the effects of pollution, the pet and food trade, killed by cars as they try to cross roads, and snared in fishing nets or by fish hooks meant to catch other species. Fortunately, a community of scientists, environmentalists and volunteers around the world are helping to protect and save turtles.
The author, Sue Carstairs, is a veterinarian at a turtle rescue and rehabilitation center. She reveals how she repairs shattered shells, broken jaws, and injured skulls, and nurses severely injured turtles back to health for release into the wild. Carstairs also explains how turtle eggs are harvested from injured mothers, incubated, raised in tanks and released into the wild. Organizations around the world performing similar work with land and sea turtles are also profiled.
What can readers do to help the worldwide effort to save and protect turtles? Two examples from the many offered in the book: participate in World Turtle Day, on May 23rd every year, sponsored by American Tortoise Rescue, and lobby for "turtle crossing" signs in nesting areas.
A behind-the-scenes look at a hospital for severely injured turtles.Turtles have been around for 220 million years -- longer than dinosaurs. But now their time might be running out. Of the roughly 300 species worldwide, more than half are threatened with extinction. Freshwater, marine and land turtles are all affected. And their biggest threat is us!
As the human race grows and expands on the planet, turtles are losing their homes, suffering the effects of pollution, the pet and food trade, killed by cars as they try to cross roads, and snared in fishing nets or by fish hooks meant to catch other species. Fortunately, a community of scientists, environmentalists and volunteers around the world are helping to protect and save turtles.
The author, Sue Carstairs, is a veterinarian at a turtle rescue and rehabilitation center. She reveals how she repairs shattered shells, broken jaws, and injured skulls, and nurses severely injured turtles back to health for release into the wild. Carstairs also explains how turtle eggs are harvested from injured mothers, incubated, raised in tanks and released into the wild. Organizations around the world performing similar work with land and sea turtles are also profiled.
What can readers do to help the worldwide effort to save and protect turtles? Two examples from the many offered in the book: participate in World Turtle Day, on May 23rd every year, sponsored by American Tortoise Rescue, and lobby for "turtle crossing" signs in nesting areas.
This book is great if you are a super-fan of turtles and tortoises. If not, you are out of luck. This book is about turtles, turtles, and more turtles. Personally, I found it very interesting because I like turtles, but not everyone will find it interesting.
ReplyDelete-Amara
I really liked this book, and liked how it explained the different types of turtles, their habitats, and how they are in danger. But, some of the images in this book were too gory, and bloody for me. It was sad to see how hurt some of the turtles were. In conclusion, even though it was a good book, it was just too gory for me.
ReplyDelete-Kate
This was a good book. It was all about turtles: oldest, rarest, biggest, smallest, most common, etc. I learned a lot of things about turtles. But some of the pictures were kind of detailed of people operating on turtles to heal them. It was a good book, but they could have cut back on the graphic images of wounded turtles.
ReplyDeleteSara
This book was a good read. It was about turtles and tortoises and how communities and countries came together and how they are making a effort to help endangered turtles. After I finished reading this book it made me want to help endangered animals even more!
ReplyDelete-Miyu