Sea Turtles Have Plastic Out of Their Stomachs

Environmental pollution continues to affect the seas and oceans, like many living spaces. In the past months, many sea creatures have been damaged due to the mucilage problem in the Marmara Sea. This time, it was announced that the wastes in the Mediterranean harm sea turtles.

With the melting of the glaciers, it continued to exist on the beaches of the Mediterranean. In the last 70 years; The lives of sea turtles are endangered due to global climate changes, oil spills, pollution from thermal power plants and plastic waste.

95 percent of the waste thrown into the sea consists of plastic materials

Studies in the Mediterranean within one kilometer less than 5 millimeters 1.25 million plastic parts shows it exists. This means that 95 percent of discarded waste is plastic. Home to thousands of sea turtle nests every year. Hatay Samandag continues to fight the increasing plastic pollution. unfortunately countries bordering the Mediterranean wastes continue to come to the Mediterranean shores again via the Orontes River.

Dead sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs

Hundreds of sea turtles are found in the seas every year. by eating floating waste mistaking it for bait dies. Advisor to the Green Sea Turtle Conservation Project, Assoc. Dr. Bektas Sonmez said in a statement. 20-25 out of 50 dead turtles in the digestive tract they detected plastic explained. Some of the offspring that come out of their nests to the sea by hanging on the garbage He stated that he could not reach them and that it was food for other animals.

In order not to endanger the lives of sea turtles and other creatures, let’s throw our garbage in the garbage and recycling bins. Let’s protect the ecological balance. Let’s not use single-use plastic as much as possible.