Child
picks up turtle egg and it is broken. |
Beach
umbrella is pushed into the ground and eggs in nest are broken. |
Young
turtle is hungry and swallows a jellyfish. Oh no, it is not
a jellyfish, but a piece of plastic bag. Young turtle cannot
breath and suffocates. |
Beach
chair is placed on turtle nest and eggs are crushed. |
Lights
from hotel and restaurant on nesting grounds are shining.
Hatchling gets confused and goes in the wrong direction. Hatchling
dies before reaching the sea. |
Turtle
is no longer hungry. Its stomach feels full. Turtle stops
eating and dies of hunger. Poor turtle did not realize that
a piece of plastic was blocking its digestive system. |
Workers
on an oil tanker decide to clean it. The oil gets into the
sea destroying the creatures that the turtles eat and penetrating
the sand where they nest. Now the turtles have nothing to
eat and no place to nest. |
A
child has a birthday party. Beautiful balloons are everywhere.
One balloon flies away, breaks, and floats into the ocean.
A turtle swallows it and suffocates. |
The
paper mill is making paper for may uses. Untreated waste from
the paper mill is dumped into the water. This industrial pollution
destroys the sea turtle. |
People
at the hotel wash their hands with non-biodegradable soap.
This waste is not treated and is dumped into the sea. The
water is polluted, the plants can not grow, the turtle can
not live |
