From the field: Plastic pollution choking world’s oceans
An underwater photographer’s chance encounter with a starving turtle led to a personal “awakening” about the dangers discarded plastic poses to sea life in the world’s oceans.
Plastic pollution in the world's oceans is threatening marine life.
In November 2017, Saeed Rashid from the United Kingdom was taking photos during a dive on a reef in the Egyptian Red Sea when he came across a female hawksbill turtle that had swallowed a plastic bag and was, as a result, unable to eat.
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.
Source:United Nations
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