Deep Ocean Live: Plastic wrecks remote Indian Ocean turtle nesting island

[Judi Lynn]

The island's tortoises are being affected as well by eating plastic debris, with half a flip-flop found in a pile of dung.
By Thomas Moore, science correspondent

Wednesday 20 February 2019 04:39, UK

A huge plastic clean-up operation is being organised on one of the most important turtle nesting islands in the Indian Ocean.

The isolated Aldabra atoll, 390 miles off the coast of Africa, is strewn with plastic that has been swept long distances by ocean currents.

Around 5,000 endangered green turtles nest on beaches around the coral atoll, an outlying island of the Seychelles and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

But the animals are being entangled in nylon fishing ropes, and the hatchlings can struggle to reach the sea because of debris on the sand.

More:
https://news.sky.com/story/deep-ocean-live-plastic-wrecks-remote-indian-ocean-turtle-nesting-island-11641973

[Bluepinky]

1. Love turtles, this breaks my heart.

Plastic debris is everywhere. I feel so sorry for the mess we have made in the world, innocent creatures are suffering.

[Duppers]

2. 😢

It hurts but too many people just don't give a flying ____.