Sea Turtle choked with 317 plastic pieces found dead on Australian beach

A green sea turtle washed off dead on far North coast of New South Wales beach in Australia with over 300 pieces of plastic debris lodged in its guts.

“Unfortunately we counted 317 pieces of plastic from the lower intestine of the turtle and there is no question what caused the death of this animal,” Rochelle Ferris, General Manager of Australian Seabird Rescue, an organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of marine wildlife, told ABC North Coast NSW TV

The organization, which carried the autopsy of the dead turtle, called it the worst case of death of an endangered marine animal due to direct ingestion of plastic in the last 15 years

130 pieces of plastic was the earlier record but for one turtle with 317 pieces of plastic is telling how much plastic is in our oceans,” Ferris said

Green sea turtles are among the most endangered or "critically endangered" list of animals on Earth. Intervention from human activities including illegal fishing and sea pollution from urban waste pose threat to their existence.

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Also I watched this documentary The Incredible Trip of the Sea Turtle was long but quite an amazing journey, I watched it on Youtube but know has been terminated by multiple third party so heres a preview 1min 50sec a lot shorter than the full but the HD made the full video worth the watch
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reply to post by BasedGod


It breaks my heart when I hear stories like this! We have the ability to recycle this plastic waste but we choose not too because there is no profit in it, it is time consuming and people just generally don't want to do it!

This has to change... I run an environmental community website which hosts campaigns and projects and will see what I can do about illegal waste dumping in the ocean... This will be however just one of the causes of pollution in the ocean! You have to think of all the discarded litter on the streets such as plastic bags, which eventually end up in the sea due to the wind!

A community member sent me this video recently:

It's tragic. But all you had to do was type turtle into the search.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Already covered

reply to post by ZeroReady


I did search but turns out I was to specific wont happen again

reply to post by Theoretician


wow, thanks for the video. If you havent seen Deepwater Disaster: The Untold Story I recommend it even though it has been removed from youtube