A baby turtle washed up onto the Florida coastline and died after eating 104 pieces of plastic while swimming in the ocean — and it’s not an isolated incident. - TODAYshow
of the deceased loggerhead turtle with bits of plastic removed from its body, said that baby turtles die from ingesting plastic every year.
The staff at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center perform an autopsy on every baby turtle that dies in the facility and always find ingested plastic.Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, which was founded in 1984, works to help young turtles during “washback season.” As hatchlings, the turtles leave their nest on the shore and swim into the Gulf Stream and live on the"weed line.
The team at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center gives subcutaneous fluids to help rehydrate a sick baby turtle.“I've been here since 2012 and every turtle that I’ve performed a necropsy on has had plastic of some sort,” she said. “It’s devastating. You feel hopeless.”
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