HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

The turtle probably mistook the floating plastic bag for a jellyfish which hawksbills typically eat.

It is just one example of how discarded plastic items are choking the marine ecosystem.

On World Oceans Day, marked annually on 8 June, the UN and its partners are raising awareness about the destructive force of plastic pollution across the globe.

To read more about Saeed Rashid’s turtle rescue exploits and his awakening, as well the global fight against plastic pollution go to: https://unworldoceansday.org/spotlight-article/plastic-planet. (SOURCE: UN).

Read also:

• The Missing Science: Could Our Addiction to Plastic Be Poisoning Us?
• Microplastic Particles in the Ocean Now Outnumber Stars in Our Galaxy — The World Is Being ‘Swamped’ by Harmful Plastic Waste
• New Report Offers Global Outlook on Efforts to Beat Plastic Pollution
• Backpack Ponchos: Peru’s Solution to Plastic Pollution
• Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
• World Campaign to Clean Torrents of Plastic Dumped in the Oceans
• More Plastic than Fish or How Politicians Help Ocean Destruction
• Plastic No More… Also in Kenya
• UN Declares War on Ocean Plastic
• Ghost Fishing? 640.000 Tonnes of Fishing Gear Dumped in Oceans Every Year
• Once Upon a Time a Planet…
• Climate Change Summit a Step Further, Yes… But Where To?
• A Death Sea Called Mediterranean
• Why We Need to Save Our Oceans Now—Not Later
• Freshwater to Sea, the Resilience of Oceans
• Saving the Oceans, Saving the Future: Officials Tackle Marine Pollution

2018 Human Wrongs Watch