We Are Destroying Sea Turtles With All Our Plastic Waste
[2023-01-17 23:11:04]
For turtles, plastic bags look like delicious jellyfish. Lost fishing nets may seem like harmless seaweed. For sea turtles, however, plastic contamination is fatal - according to the latest research, as fatal each year a thousand turtles will die
Researchers at Exeter University in the United Kingdom conducted a worldwide survey of the sea inhabited by sea turtles and found that 91% of the discovered turtles were dead. Researchers also asked experts from the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Mediterranean countries to see the turtle being killed in plastic. According to press release, 84% of 106 respondents agreed
Brendan Godley, professor of conservation science at Exeter, says: According to press release. "To cope with the serious threats to breeding sea turtles, we need to reduce the level of plastic waste and look for biodegradable alternatives."
The author named various types of plastic waste as sea, from plastic strings to nylon fishing line, 6 canned beverages, plastic packaging, and discarded anchor line, killing the turtle . Animals wrapped in plastics will not be able to eat regularly, as they suffocate, lose limbs, injure, eat litter, and so on. Dead animals that are filled with garbage explain how to clog up fishing gear and home garbage until you make your animal's stomach starved
As researchers say that 1,000 deaths per year are very conservative, the tortoise mortality induced by plastics may be even worse. Estimates are based on the discovery of sea turtles, but many dead sea turtles have never recovered. According to reports, those who found turtle carcasses on the beach collect and eat sometimes. Many turtles were just dead in the sea and never saw it again.
There are seven types of turtles, all of which are influenced by plastics. According to the International Conservation Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN), tortoises are fragile, in danger of extinction, or are in danger of extinction. IUCN specifically pointed out that plastic contamination is a major threat to the survival of some sea turtles.
For example, in the case of the leatherback turtle, their main threats are fishing from the fishery, destruction of habitats, people killing them, destruction of their food, habitat, climate change, pathogens, pollution
Like many other marine animals, marine turtles mistaken plastic waste as a viable food source, sometimes causing a gastrointestinal obstruction. The decline in the number of sea turtles in the sea is due to various factors (most of which are accompanied by human development), plastics pollution plays an important role. According to another survey in 2013, 50% of sea turtles have ingested plastics at an unprecedented rate, resulting in death. In another study on loggeraga species, 15% of young turtles ingested plenty of plastics and found that the digestive system was blocked.
There are seven types of turtles, all of which are influenced by plastics. According to the International Conservation Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN), tortoises are fragile, in danger of extinction, or are in danger of extinction. IUCN specifically pointed out that plastic contamination is a major threat to the survival of some sea turtles.
Plastic waste is spreading all over the world. This plastic contamination affects approximately 100,000 turtles, marine mammals, and 1 million marine life each year. Larger plastics (called "macroproplastics"), such as plastic shopping bags, can block the digestive tract of large animals when they are eaten, restrict food movement or fill the stomach It is triggered by tempting animals to think that they are full. I am starving. . On the other hand, microplastic can damage small marine organisms. For example, the number of marine plastic pieces in the Ocean Center exceeds the number of living marine planktons and reaches all marine organisms through the food chain. According to the 1994 seabed survey using trawl nets on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, France