'EXTINCTION CRISIS': Nature in worst shape in human history, UN report says
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Just like the starving albatross on TV that feed it's chick plastic.A Rescued Green Turtle Pooped Out Plastic Trash For Weeks
Unless you’ve been living under a soda bottle for the past couple of years, you’ll no doubt be aware that plastic pollution has become a worrying scourge on our planet’s oceans.
In the latest grim illustration of this problem, a sea turtle has been rescued after being found with a belly full of plastic. While the turtle is now on the mend, vets say it spent the past month pooping out over 13 grams (0.5 ounces) of nylon bags, netting, and an assortment of other plastic trash.
The green turtle was caught in a fishers' net off the coast of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on December 29, 2019. After being passed onto experts at Mundo Marino Foundation, an Argentina-based conservation group, it was revealed that the turtle had a worrying amount of plastics stuck in its digestive tract.
“Through radiographic images, we could see foreign bodies inside. Therefore, we started a treatment with a medication that increases peristaltic movements (movements of the digestive tract) and allows it to excrete what we saw in the images," Ignacio Peña, a veterinarian at the Foundation, said in a statement.
More: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-a...een-turtle-pooped-out-plastic-trash-for-weeks
Correct me if I'm wrong but dont birds swallow shit to help with digestion then puke it up later? Do turtles do the same?
" Nature has an eloquent way of restoring equilibrium and balance to populations whose numbers threaten the overall health of the land. I think people forget just how much insane effort and global violence and manic suffering it takes to delay Nature in delivering this balance to us. Personally, I think an anarcho-primitivist solution or simply, tribes, is the only one that I’ve heard that doesn’t engage us in a war against the earth, a war we can’t win and don’t even really want to!" - Gumby Montgomery.
REI Presents: Everything to Lose by Pattie Gonia
Watch the full documentary "Dear Mother Nature": https://youtu.be/8Yfk0vvVIoU “Everything to Lose” features a spoken word poem by Pattie Gonia that calls people to reflect on the impacts their actions have on Mother Nature (or as Pattie says, "Mother Natch"). Now is the time to change our behaviors and take positive action.
Looks as though the Corona virus maybe helping you out a little Cliffy, have you organized a rally to meet all that returned from China yet and thank them for their sacrifice? Make sure to shake their hands
'The Turning Point' explores the destruction of the environment, climate change and species extinction from different perspective. Music by Wantaways.
