Volunteers looking to help more sea turtles in 2009

I'm sure that most women would abort an unwanted or unplanned sea turtle growing in their uterus.

....But imagine just how many humans would not survive without handouts. Perhaps we should stop that as well? After all humans are only mammals too. Big difference with us though is we are the fools using up all the resources so nothing else can survive.

They didn't have man throwing plastic bags in the water for them to choke to death on, or block their gastrointestinal track and lead to starvation or a fatal blockage. (The bags look like jellyfish) They didn't get smashed by a speedboat and have a propeller shatter and rip through their shell as it passed over them. They didn't have man fishing with nets that held them underwater until they drowned. (Prior to TEDs being mandated, literally millions were killed by commercial fishing.) They didn't have man killing them to simply clean, polish and varnish the shell for sale to tourists. Man has driven them to the point of extinction. It's only right that man now take steps to preserve them. I'd rather see folks taking steps to save innocent animals than blowing time and money on people who refuse to help themselves.

The turtles of yesteryear weren't up against the same environmental challenges they are now.

there wouldn't be children *or* turtles suffering.....folks are so concerned about how everything affects *them*, they could care less about the big picture..... Like many other creatures, the turtles are suffering because we have invaded their habitat. The ideal way to protect them would be to cease invading/leave their territory, and they would no longer have to deal with litter, hooks, lines, or nets....but that's not going to happen...so the next best thing we can do it try to minimize the impact we have on their environment.1 Aside from the fact that the very people you want to help seem to do nothing more than spew out more children they can't support on their own....think what the outcry would be if only one in 5,000 children survived to adulthood, and one in 15,000 of them survived long enough to reproduce...do you think their'd be some screaming for change? Those are the odds that a turtle faces.... Jean's operation has already proven that they're able to reverse that trend....65+ years of gov't intervention on the other side has proven that no one has yet come up for a solution to making folks be responsible for their own. you don't want to help...fine...contribute to your own cause...or just stand around with your hands out...just don't tax me to fund it...I'll contribute to mine. Jean's is the only operation to run in the area without any federal funding....which means all her money is coming from private donations......you don't like it - you don't have to participate....wish there were a few thousand gov't handouts that could be held to the same standard....I have better uses for my tax dollar than the ones I have no say in....