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Mostly human activity caused the Green Sea Turtle to become endangered. Many sea turtles were hurt, killed, or prevented from participating in their lifestyle by motor boats. Also, humans can destroy or pollute their habitat, as humans may dump waste into sea waters. Furthermore, the destruction of coral reefs has left scarce amounts of prey for the turtles to eat, and overfishing leaves them without food.

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Unfortunately, green sea turtles are endangered mostly because of people. We pollute their waters and dig up there eggs, even though it's illegal. Green sea turtles LOVE to eat jellyfish and plastic bags look just like them, through the eyes of a sea turtle. The sea turtles eat the plastic bags and get impaction, or they bags get suck in their stomach or intestines. Also oil spills are killing off sea turtles because the turtles will swim into the oil and them get covered in it, making it hard to breath and swim. People also hunt down sea turtles for their fins, leather, and meat. Fishing nets are a huge problem too, thousand of sea turtles die each year when they get caught and drown in nets. People also illegally dig up their nests to get the eggs. Poor sea turtles.

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