Death by Plastic
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Each month four hawksbill turtles in the Thousand Islands die from eating waste plastic. Of tens of thousands found in the 1990s, only about 2,000 now remain in the islands off the Jakarta coast.
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Its eyes set on a floating object in the water, the hawksbill turtle swims happily toward what looks to it like a jellyfish. Too late. The object it snaps and swallows isn’t a jellyfish, its favorite meal, but a piece of plastic. In an instant, the hawksbill is dead, following in the footsteps of three others which died earlier in the past two weeks.
An increasing number of hawksbills are dying of rubbish in the waters of the Thousand Islands,
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