- continuing loss of nesting habitat & environmental damages from structure building
- tourist use of beaches result in disturbance to nesting turtles
(Egg laying can be aborted or delayed as well)
- Artificial lighting has negative effects on nesting behaviour and success
(turtles can mistakenly move inland after egg laying)
- practice of adding sand onto a beach to rebuild affects turtles by direct burial of nests
- mechanical equipment for beach cleaning that result compacted beaches that are difficult for nesting
- predators
main: Homo sapiens
others: raccoons, sharks, gulls, foxes, snakes.....)
- dirty environment
(rubbish in sea or land, oil and gas)
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