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Some marine species, such as sea turtles, have been found to contain large proportions of plastics in their stomach. [162] When this occurs, the animal typically starves, because the plastic blocks the animal's digestive tract. [162] Sometimes marine mammals are entangled in plastic products such as nets, which can harm or kill them. [162]
Over 700 marine species, including half of the world’s cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), all of its sea turtles, and a third of its seabirds, are known to ingest plastic.
This can bring seabirds, whales, fish, and turtles to die of starvation with plastic-filled stomachs. Marine species can also be suffocated or entangled in plastic garbage. [35] The biggest threat of ocean plastic pollution comes from microplastics. These are small fragments of plastic debris, some of which were produced to be this small such ...
Discarded plastic bags, six-pack rings, cigarette butts and other forms of plastic waste which finish up in the ocean present dangers to wildlife and fisheries. [52] Aquatic life can be threatened through entanglement, suffocation, and ingestion. [53] [54] [55] Fishing nets, usually made of plastic, can be left or lost in the ocean by fishermen.
Debris on beach near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Debris collected from beaches on Tern Island in the French Frigate Shoals over one month. Researchers classify debris as either land- or ocean-based; in 1991, the United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution estimated that up to 80% of the pollution was land-based, [5] with the remaining 20% originating from ...
Loggerhead sea turtle escapes from fishing net through a turtle excluder device (TED) Threats to sea turtles are numerous and have caused many sea turtle species to be endangered. Of the seven extant species of sea turtles, six in the family Cheloniidae and one in the family Dermochelyidae, all are listed on the IUCN Red List of Endangered ...
Several species of sea turtles commonly ingest plastic marine debris, and even small quantities of debris can kill sea turtles by obstructing their digestive tracts. [69] Nutrient dilution, which occurs when plastics displace food in the gut, affects the nutrient gain and consequently the growth of sea turtles. [70]
Rehabilitating the Kemp’s ridley sea turtles is particularly important due to their critically endangered status. The species used to be abundant throughout the Gulf of Mexico and nested in ...
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