“In recent years green sea turtle grazing has put unprecedented pressure on Bermuda’s seagrass habitat resulting in the collapse of local beds, thus creating a conservation dilemma where one protected species, the green sea turtle, is causing the decline of other protected species, the seagrasses.”
This is according to the report on the “State of Bermuda’s Marine Waters,” which said, “The offshore seagrass beds, which are far from man’s direct impact, were the first beds to disappear. The disappearance of seagrass meadows has also stripped protection from known and unknown shipwrecks and marine heritage sites, exposing them to erosion, biological elements, and unregulated discovery.