Why Should You Help Sea Turtles? Think about it. You're snorkeling and below you is a sea turtle stuck in fishing gear. He wriggles to get out, but can't. This is happening all over the world as you read this. The WWF or in other words the World Wide Fund tries day after day to find new solutions to the many threats that weigh on sea turtles on a daily basis. With each passing day, these turtles disappear and are very threatened. They are hardly found at the beach or in the ocean anymore. They don't have very long, so we need to help them, quickly! Sea turtles are currently endangered or critically endangered depending on their species. Four main reasons led to this terrible news. The first and one of the most important reasons why sea turtles are disappearing is called bycatch. This means that sea turtles are accidentally caught in fishing gear. When this happens, the turtle cannot breathe because it drowns along with the heavy equipment. They are like humans in the sense that they need to raise their heads above water to breathe, just like...