“We are shedding light on the turtle and why it is about to become extinct, why are we killing it and why it is dying. It is dying because of the pollution of plastic and trash bags that we are ...

Plastic, rubber bands, pieces of balloon and other rubbish had filled the turtle’s intestinal tract, leaving it unable to eat and causing its death two days later. Startling images of plastic shreds, ...

KWS acting director general Dr Erustus Kanga says the census was released in the last two months. Dr Kanga, however, says the number of sea turtles has been declining due to climate change affecting ...

Dead sea turtles have been discovered with a vast array of plastic waste inside their bellies, with one unlucky reptile having swallowed a rubber witch's finger. Of a total of 135 loggerhead turtles ...

A tiny turtle who was rescued by the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, pooped plastic for six days. When he started to defecate, "No feces came out, just pure plastic." The WWF estimates half of all ...

Plastic straws are one of the top contributors of plastic pollution in the oceans. With just 9% of straws capable of being recycled worldwide, hundreds of millions to billions make their way into the ...

About 160 sea turtles, many of them injured after getting entangled in plastic waste, have been rescued after washing up on one of the world's longest beaches in Bangladesh, an official and ...

As recently as the 1960s, perhaps later—within the life span of Tom Hanks, and within a few years of when the world was using its very first ATMs and contraceptive pills—nearly all of the planet’s sea ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A 13-year-old Rock Island girl has earned global recognition for her efforts to reduce plastic waste. Nicolina Pappas was named a 2025 International Young Eco-Hero Award winner by ...

Tourism Chief Administrative Secretary Wilson Sossion [center] with KWS acting director general Erustus Kanga looking at Hatchlings at the Nyali beach during the world turtle day in Mombasa County.

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