Endangered Species
Leatherback Turtle
Information about the Leatherback Turtles
The Leatherback turtle is dark with whites spots. Its has flexible bones, it is about 4-8 ft long. This turtle doesn't have a shell. The leatherback is covered in scales. Leatherback turtles have been around for more then 150 years. They lived through Dinosaurs extinction
Where the Leatherback turtle lives
This turtle lives in the sea like the Pacific and as far north as Alaska and south beyond the southern most tip of Zealand.
Names\ Kingdoms
- Dermochelys Coriacea
- Leatherback Turtle
- Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Dermochelyidae
Genus: Dermochelys
Species: coriacea
Role in the Ecosystem
The leatherback turtle plays the role of a herbivore in the sea. This turtle main diet is jellyfish and sometimes crab.
Threats to Leatherback turtle and Solutions that need to be done
The main threats this turtle faces is habitat loss, wildlife trade, collection of eggs and meat for consumption, climate change and pollution. The solutions that are being done to protect the Leatherback turtle is to protect nesting beaches for this turtle raising awareness in communities also promoting regional agreement to conserve marine turtles, then reducing the long line by catching facilitating and promoting gear modification