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Nov 19, 2020 · Endangered marine animals, threatened with extinction, are losing their battle against plastic in the United States. Nearly 1,800 of them, including a significant number of sea turtles, have ...
- CBS News
- Sophie Lewis
- 4 min
- ELITZA GERMANOV
- Additional Items Found:
- Toothbrushes
- Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles
- BRANDON BASSETT
- Seals and Sea Lions
- Baleen Whales
- ELITZA GERMANOV
- We need to stop the flow of plastic going into the ocean. To achieve that, Oceana has the following recommendations:
- How to Report Marine Animals in Distress
- Acknowledgments
MARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION Photo Credit: Nova Southeastern University, Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program Photo Credit: Peter Bennett Choked, Strangled, Drowned: The Plastics Crisis Unfolding in Our Oceans
Beverage bottles Bottle caps Bubble wrap Buckets Chairs Children’s gliding toy Dental flosser Forks Plastic Easter grass Polystyrene cups Polystyrene pieces Sandwich bags Sponges Straws Swim goggles
Photo Credit: 4ocean Plastics impacting marine animals range in size, shape and type, from plastic buckets to food wrappers to plastic bags. The most commonly found ingested plastics were, however, unidentifiable varied pieces – from thin, flexible, clear film to thicker, rigid, colored pieces. The most common types of identifiable plastics ingeste...
In the Gulf of Mexico, Kemp’s ridleys have been found entangled in plastic mesh bags, with multiple cases noting swallowing of some of the bag as well — possibly from the turtles biting at the plastic in an attempt to remove the material from their flippers. In Rhode Island, a Kemp’s ridley was found entangled in a wrapper from a case of plastic wa...
Brandon Bassett is a biologist at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission who responds to manatee strandings. “Generally 10% or 12% of manatee carcasses have some sort of marine debris in them. In one case, a manatee died from ingesting a large amount of plastic bags and other plastic. Imagine a ball of plastic bags in the stomach, ab...
In New York, a juvenile gray seal was found with a plastic sandwich bag wrapper around its neck, which cut into the animal’s tissue. In Hawaii, animal-rescue professionals removed a water bottle from the snout of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal. In Oregon, a California sea lion was found with a plastic band wrapped so tightly around its neck that ...
In Virginia, a female sei whale swallowed a DVD case, which lacerated her stomach and led to gastric ulcers, harming her ability to find food.64 Also in Virginia, a necropsy on a minke whale revealed a plastic bag in its stomach, though it is unclear if the bag contributed to the death of the animal. While many more are likely affected, due to limi...
Elitza Germanov is a researcher with the Aquatic Megafauna Research Unit at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, and a senior scientist with the U.S.-based conservation organization Marine Megafauna Foundation. She studies human-caused threats to large marine species and their habitats. Germanov’s current research looks at the efects of marine d...
Companies must reduce the production of plastic, especially unnecessary single-use plastic. Companies must offer consumers plastic-free choices. National, state and local governments must pass policies to reduce the production and use of single-use plastic. Companies and governments must move to establish widespread use of reusable and refillable c...
Stranded animals are injured, sick, unable to return to the water or are deceased onshore or floating in the water. However, seals will commonly rest or breed on beaches and sea turtles will come up on shore to nest and, in certain areas, rest on shore. Always allow trained personnel to respond to wildlife. Please visit the NOAA Fisheries website...
The authors would like to give special thanks to Brandon Bassett, Elitza Germanov and Kelly Thorvalson for their time, perspective and expertise, as well as sharing their stories with us. Oceana would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful contributions during the development and review of this report. Oceana highlights and si...
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Nov 23, 2020 · In a report released last week, Oceana found evidence of nearly 1,800 marine mammals and sea turtles from 40 different species swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic in United States’ waters since 2009. Of those ocean animals, 88% were species listed as endangered or threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act.
May 6, 2017 · Humans can now eat animal flesh with one restriction, and it is universal – a prohibition on eating blood: “You must not, however, eat flesh with its life-blood in it.” In this week’s double portion, we again encounter this prohibition.
Nov 23, 2020 · Balloons, plastic bags, recreational fishing line and food wrappers are killing thousands of marine animals as they eat plastic items that later perforate internal organs, or become entangled and...
strangled animals. Jewish Law does not allow animals to be choked to death and requires slaughtering by cutting the throat and draining the blood, which is not to be consumed (for ‘the blood is the life’, Lev. 17: 14) even by Gentiles resident within the community (Lev. 17: 10–14).
Feb 8, 2018 · Strangled animals may have localized or distant abrasions, contusions or other lesions of blunt force trauma, sexual abuse, and/or projectile wounds ([3, 37, 98]). Abrasions, lacerations, or contusions may be self-inflicted while struggling or may be caused by the perpetrator.
