Hey everyone! I was watching T.V the other night and came across this documentary on sea turtles. The Georgia Sea Turtle Center is an organization that protects sea turtles based on their injuries. "Every year 100,000 sea animals are killed due to plastics in our oceans. Humans are directly affecting the lives of thousands of sea animals by inaccurately disposing of plastic and other ocean litter."(Sea Turtle Restoration Project).
Many sea turtles are injured due to fishing practices, pollution, and even light pollution. Improper outdoor lighting is one of the biggest problems affecting sea turtles. To get a better look, check out this link to see the youtube video where they show a rescued turtle being released back out into the wild. It's a very inspirational thing to see.
Interesting Facts:
When sea turtles consume the plastic bags, they often get lodged in their stomachs making it seem like they are not hungry, and eventually causing them to die of starvation. Sea turtles also get caught in plastic floating in the ocean causing them to drown. What is it going to take for people to quit littering in the ocean? Littering can also cause infection on sea creatures since plastics that are littered carry pathogens that affect sea turtles.
"Through sea turtle rehabilitation, research and education programs, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center will increase awareness of habitat and wildlife conservation challenges, promote responsibility for ecosystem health and empower individuals to act locally, regionally, and globally to protect the environment."
The Georgia Sea Turtle Center also allows you to become a member or their organization and offer helping hands. I think that it would be an honor to help out these magnificent creatures that are near extinction. Hopefully we eliminate these problems before it's too late for these sea turtles.
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I was looking at the links you have in this post. Wow 60-80% of the ocean's litter is plastics. That is really bad to see as plastics do not biodegrade.
The link to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center gave me a lot of information on how to help. I have seen sea turtle documentaries before on television. It is so sad to see when they get caught in plastic and slowly cut and bleed to death. Making documentaries is good for people to see as we often do not know what is happening until we see it. Cause often times seeing is believing.
Hey Christen,
This was very interesting...it kind of goes along with Dr. V's post Plastic Soup.
I hope we can raise enough awareness to decrease the amount of plastic we use to save the sea turtles=)
Great Post!
Christen
Very interesting! Good find! Keep up the good work :)
Heather
Christen
Very interesting! Good find! Keep up the good work :)
Heather
Christen-
Good find! It makes me feel really bad for animals, because they can't control what we are putting into their homes! :( I know that these people are helping them, which is great, but at the same time it made me sad to see the turtle have to go through all of that!
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