Essay On Effect Of Pollution On Marine Wildlife

The Impact Of Pollution On Marine Wildlife Marine wildlife has been in existence for over million of years. Researchers and Marine Biologists have been trying to show the importance of the studies of how pollution impacts the lives of many marine wildlife and their habitat. It is necessary that we find out what pollution is doing to these poor marine animals and find a way to start making our marine wildlife clean and healthy. The purpose of this literature review is to provide research to the people that do not understand what pollution is doing to these amazing marine animals. The pollution from oil spills, plastic, sewage, and ocean mining negatively impacts marine wildlife and their quality of life. Our oceans are the largest bodies of water on the Earth, and over the last few decades, humans have severely affected the marine life in the Earth’s oceans. One of those human activities that has impacts on marine wildlife are oil spills. Oil pollution has been notice and getting a lot of attention since the middle of the 19th century. …show more content…
Humans have been polluting the Earth for many years now and it is showing. People mistakes, like littering are now having an impact on our marine wildlife. Islam and Tanaka reported “that as many as 600,000 plastic containers worldwide were being dumped daily at sea by shipping.” Fish or turtles can swim through these objects and get the plastic stuck around them. This could lead to deformation within the body of the animal. Also, this could even harm the fish and turtles, or even kill them. In the north-western Mediterranean, plastics constituted most of the debris, at an average of about 77% (Islam and Tanaka). Plastic will always be a problem to the marine wildlife if the people around the world will not stop throwing their garbage on the ground or in the