Why Plastic Is A Problem For Sea Turtles And The Ocean

Could you possibly imagine the world without any rhinos? In 1970 the population of Black Rhino was 70,000, and now more than half of the rhino population has decreased. By 1995 the Black Rhino population was 2,410. Similarly, other animal populations around the world are decreasing at a surprising rate. If we don't protect them, then these animals will be gone forever. People should help protect endangered species for many obvious reasons, such as it would help with ecosystems, earth would be much cleaner, and it would improve life for future generations to come. First, we should help protect the endangered species for our ecosystems. On the website Nature Matters, it points out that if we help out, we will be able to maintain a healthy and functional ecosystems for the animals on this planet. What I mean by healthy and functional ecosystem is that if zebras become extinct, then those animals that hunt the zebra …show more content…
In the article “Why plastic Is a problem for Sea Turtles and the Ocean,” states that in the ocean, there is on the average “4 to 12 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year” and it is continuing to rise yearly. Because of all the trash, such animals are dying and going extinct. One of the many animals that are dying from the trash in the ocean is the sea turtle. They get wrapped up in plastic from the rings that hold pop cans together. In one instance that I saw from the same article I read ..”when a sea turtle is hungry little pieces of plastic and balloons look like food to them.” Also, in another instance, I saw an image of a sea turtle that, as a baby, he got stuck inside of a ring from a milk jug. The turtle grew abnormally with the ring around him. If we try to save these animals together that it would deplete the amount of trash that is in the ocean, and fix many instances with animals of why they’re