Carey Turtle

Carey Turtle

The Carey turtle is of medium size, it has the extended shell and its basic characteristics is that it has the overlapping shields and the sawed edge.
This species lives mainly inthe Caribbean and the sea Hindu-Pacific.
Its main paper in the biodiversity is its depredation with sponges since to the being their food, helps to diminish the capacity of sponges to compete by thespace with the training chorales of reefs.
They are fed, during his first years of life, on sargazo and other elements, as rest of tunicates associated with seaweed or small fragments of shells andduring their maturity are fed on sponge, snavy, snails, crustaceans, molluscs, sprocket wheels, starfishes, jellyfish, seaweed and fish. Without the Careyturtle, all these species would abound more andas well they would eat but his prey which could end with many more species.
The Carey turtle are prey of the ghost crab, crab hermit, that can introduce themselves in the nests and kill to the newbornbabies before these emerge to the surface, of the speckled firedamp, the raccoon, the coati or pizote.
When ending the Carey turtle, these species would lose one of their main foods reason why orwould die or look for another prey and when looking for another prey could end the prey of other animal.
The Carey turtle is one of most beautiful, is therefore caught to take advantage of its eggs,its meat and its shell, by the beautiful thing of the colors that cover it, this one is used to make objects like peinetas, jewels, frames for lenses and other things.

What we can make to help toconserve this species is to support to the Organizations of Protection to the Environment and Species to protect the turtles, since they are important elements within the ecosystems and, in addition, toconserve the ecological balance of our planet. And to do brings back to consciousness in the people so that they do not consume nor they buy anything that is processed with parts of the sea turtle...