How many heartbreaking images of innocent animals caught up in our sea waste problem will it take for people to take action ? This week alone we ’ve had the diametrical bear in Svalbardcaptured taste to eat a plastic bagand the incredibly remote cryptical ocean “ living fogy ” Pisces that had apotato chip shot packet in its stomach .
This clock time it ’s the turn of the critically endangered Kemp ’s ridley sea polo-neck , the rarest of all sea turtleneck .
A Facebook post fromSouth Walton Turtle Watchyesterday break the sad mental picture , and ultimately tragic destiny , of this rare female found trapped in a cake faecal matter of all thing on a beach in Florida .
“ We did get this beautiful dame out of the chair . She was a decisive endangered Kemps and of course of action she was deadened , ” thepost reads .
“ expect at her head to see what she went through . short affair it must have been an awful destruction . ”
She was found on Monday even on Dune Allen Beach in South Walton County , pull already dead from the sea by a local resident . The cadaver were too mangled even for a necropsy , but the cause of death was percipient .
“ It was very heartbreaking to see such an endangered animal , [ it ] had to be a terrible way to die , ” Michael Abshure of South Walton Turtle Watch evidence local word broadcasterWEAR - TV . “ Entangled in that chair , I would imagine that ’s a retentive , deadening death . ”
It was only last month that the carcass of another Kemp ’s ridley polo-neck was discovered on a beach on Dauphin Island , Alabama , this timetrapped inside a beach chair . It appeared to have got entangled in a circle attach to the fabric and metal camping chair .
Kemp ’s ridley sea turtlesare the rare in the populace . They only live in the Gulf of Mexico , and part of the east coast of the United States . universe number move from around 100,000 in the forties down to just a few hundred in the 1980s , but have started creeping back up again thanks to indicate preservation and breeding area for these small turtles .
As their numbers are tardily increasing , groups like South Walton Turtle Watch are urging beachgoers in these region to do one simple affair : if you go to the beach , piece up after yourself .
“ Please do not leave your items , anything , on the beach , ” they order in their post . “ Why ca n’t we keep things off the beach at night ? Please circularise the word and do your part . ”
