Hilarious Video Shows Woman Calling Cops On Whales

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By Alex Larson
2 minutes

While boating off Washington State’s Puget Sound, a families boat ride quickly turned to chaos when a couple of humpback whales appear along side the boat resulting in a woman calling 911. The video was originally posted to Facebook http://seavoicenews.com/2018/10/15/hilarious-video-shows-woman-calling-cops-on-whales/

by Darren Lucianna whom can be heard through the video trying to calm the others down and explain to them how rare of a sight this was.

Continuously through the video, panicked passengers beg for the engine to start on the boat to get away from the magnificent creatures while Mr. Lucianna is heard trying to calm down the passengers.

“Relax. He’s checking us out. They’re not going to hurt you, just relax,” he says, “They’re very intelligent… Look at this you guys, you’ll never see this again.”

Eventually, the other passengers reached the point where they believed 911 was their best option.

To the woman’s credit, she is heard telling the police the location of the boat due to her fear the whale may flip it. Whales are known to be extremely curious creatures who are highly intelligent so most likely, the pod just wanted a closer look at the humans and their noise pollution causing boat.

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Sea Turtle Rescued After Plastic Spoon Found Stuck In Turtles Mouth

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By Alex Larson
2 minutes

Single-use plastic is one the bigger issues facing the world along with climate change and overfishing. It seems that every day, their is a new incident regarding a marine animal and discarded trash in the ocean that puts the animals life in danger. It seems like that because it is true.

The latest, a sea turtle was rescued from drowning in Oaxaca, Mexico after a plastic spoon became stuck inside the turtles mouth.

A fisherman spotted the reptile floating off the coast of Puerto Escondido and immediately called Mexico’s Civil Protection to come save the turtle

Civil Protection was able to capture the turtle and Brough it to the University of the Sea to try and rescued the damaged and sick turtle.

Specialists removed the spoon and were able to return the turtle back to the open sea after determine the turtle was healthy enough.

This incident happened shortly after Mexico’s Environment Secretariat announced an awareness workshop for Oaxaca’s 5,000 fisherman to better protect marine life and reduce bycatch particularly with sea turtles.

The workshop was put into place after the discovery of over 300 sea turtles that died on the Oaxacan coast when they were caught in the nets of tuna boats.

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Study Finds Half of Baby Sea Turtles Die From Consuming Plastic

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By Alex Larson
3 minutes

A recent study by researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have just uncovered a very disturbing impact humans are having on sea turtle populations. In the study, published in Nature, scientist examined data from almost 1,000 dead sea turtles and discovered that the youngest appeared to be the most vulnerable to plastic pollution.

The research revealed that plastic was found in the stomach of over half of the baby post-hatchlings and while 25% ofturtles slightly older than the hatchlings were found with plastic inside their stomach. In comparison, around 15 percent of adult turtles were affected by plastic.

The number of pieces of plastic in the reptiles’ stomachs varied greatly – from one to over 300, The Independent reports. According to a leader of the study, Dr. Britta Denise Hardesty from CSIRO, and her team, turtles have a 50 percent probability of death after consuming just 14 plastic pieces.

Turtles were among the very first species observed consuming plastic waste as the early reports of bags being discovered in their stomachs go back to the 1980s. Since that time, the amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans has grown exponentially, and now nearly 9 tons of plastic enter the oceans every year.

Turtles are not the only animals to be impacted by plastic but understand how one species is so negatively impacted may help people wrap their heads around how severe of a problem our plastic addiction has become.

The research is most concerning as the findings revealed that the most vulnerable age group of turtles, hatchlings, are actually the most impacted by plastic pollution. Sea turtles are already threatened world-wide as pollution, bycatch, overfishing and coastal development has led many species to become endangered. Turtle species and hundreds of other marine creatures are now facing a threat like no other which requires serious and lasting action – a completely reinvented approach to plastic.

We are seeing the public and governments pay more attention to plastic waste but we still have a long way to go before we get to where we need to be. To get to that goal, we will need to continue to work towards reducing total plastic usage everyday by reaching out to local business and elected officials and forcing change

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