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Sea Turtles

Location: In all oceans except the arctic ocean.

How plastic harms this animal: Plastics affect this animal in two different ways, entanglement and ingestion. Floating bags look like sea turtles favorite snack, jelly fish. After the sea turtles consume the plastic bag, the bag gets lodged in the stomach and it makes the sea turtle feel full when it's actually not, and the sea turtle dies of starvation. By getting entangled buy a plastic bag, there's always the chance of the bag also getting caught on something else while the sea turtle is swimming around which ends up leading to drowning for the sea turtle.

Source of the plastic: Human beings pollution.

What is being done to help this animal: People are cutting down on the use of plastic bags. Also asking ot hers to stop using plastic bags. There are campaigns called bag the plastics which are trying to get people to cut down on the use of all plastics.

Animals outlook: People are trying to stop using plastic bags more and more everyday. But it's gonna take more than a couple of people to actually stop all the pollution. Maybe in the future, the sea turtle with have a better looking outlook. Right now it isn't changing as much as it could be.