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The bloody turtle video that sparked a plastic straw revolution (www.bbc.com)

submitted 7 months ago by tardigrada to c/environment

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Cross posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13070792

The bloody turtle video that sparked a plastic straw revolution In 2015, PhD student Christine Figgener was on a small fishing boat off Costa Rica's Pacific Coast examining an olive ridley turtle – when she noticed something strange coming out of its nostril. Curious, she started filming as one of her research colleagues began to investigate the object. At just over eight minutes long, the video documents the uncomfortable process during which they extract a plastic straw, while blood drips from the turtle's nose.

As a marine biologist, Figgener's focus was turtles, not plastics. However, plastic had always been an issue she encountered on the field, having witnessed turtles and other animals stuck in car tires, fishing nets or plastic bags.

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

Make fishing illegal.