Since Sea Turtles are Endangered, Why Can’t We Just Help Ensure the Majority of Hatchlings make it into Water Instead of 1 in 1,000?
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[An issue that is part of a much wider problem is that the sex of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature the egg incubates at. Cool temps and they’re all make, warm temps and they’re all female, with a mixed transition zone.](https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2022/8/4/23292012/why-arent-florida-sea-turtles-males-females-heat-temperature-sex-ratio-skewed-species-extinction?_amp=true)
Anyway – you may have heard in the news something about global temperatures rising in recent years. Well, they’ve risen enough that almost all sea turtles born are female. Something like 1% of sea turtles are male now, down from about 50% of hatchlings in the early 1990s, with some hatching areas seeing no males at all.
Despite the best efforts of the remaining males the population as a whole is getting to a crisis level for being able to reproduce.
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