Turtles are lovely animals aren’t they? Although reptiles, they are easily among the most beloved animals favoured by the young and old around the world. They are adorable and you can easily see how they’ve touched our lives so much so that we’ve immortalised them into cute cartoon characters such as Squirt from Finding Nemo and Sammy from the upcoming animated movie: SAMMY’S ADVENTURES: THE SECRET PASSAGE. Yet as we speak the world is losing even more of the turtle population and our non-eco-friendly lifestyle is contributing to it. I’ll explain…
Sea Turtles can be carnivorous (meat eating), herbivorous (plant eating), or omnivorous (eating both meat and plants. Now if they do eat meat, then jelly fish can be part of the diet and our fondness for the use of plastic bags and our irresponsible disposal of them is killing the precious sea turtles because these poor innocent creature mistake plastic bags for food and end up suffocating on them. And even if they don’t eat them, they could end up swimming into them, getting caught and literally end up drowning.
So if you want to help preserve the population of sea turtles, you have to learn to cut down on your use of plastic bags and you can take that step a bit further by supporting ‘Turtle Bags’ which is the supplier of a delightful range of fair trade eco-friendly bags that benefits the Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) and women co-operative in Sri Lanka.
The bags are hand-made by a women’s co-operative in Sri Lanka using eco friendly and/or organic materials such as jute and cotton. Granted, they do seem more pricy than what you can find in the store but bear in mind the money goes to helping out conservation of turtles, party by encouraging former turtle egg collectors to turn turtle nest protectors through the income the Turtle Bag production offers.
They sell online to the world through their website and you’ll find Turtle Bags offers you a large range of colourful bags from string bags to laptop bags to trolley bags. Remember when you buy a bag, you are saving the environment, saving the turtles and giving a group of people a chance at survival.
