| A female sea turtle may migrate thousands of miles to find a suitable nesting beach. After depositing her eggs, she uses her hind flippers to cover them with sand. The threats to turtle eggs and young hatchlings are so great that a clutch of more than 100 eggs may never make it to adulthood. These threats include wildlife predators, such as foxes and sea birds, that eat eggs or hatchlings. Humans are also a threat—some humans steal turtle eggs for food, and the lights of human dwellings often disorient the hatchlings, causing them to race toward human developments instead of into the sea. |
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