Ghost Nets Entangling Sea Turtles

Описание: Ghost nets entangle thousands of sea turtles every year. In the struggle to survive, many become seriously injured, often self-amputating one or more flippers.
The Olive Ridley Project is on a mission to protect sea turtles and their habitats through rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research, and education and outreach. Most of the patients at our Marine Turtle Rescue Centre in the Maldives are ghost gear entanglement victims. We have removed more that 10 tons of ghost gear from the sea with the help of volunteers and citizen scientists and are working at both local, national and policy levels to combat the problem of ghost gear.