This picture will help you understand why

This is what is taken out of the throat of a new sea turtle washed up on the coast of South Africa. Indeed, you will understand why people say "choking ocean ".

Every year, the human world donates a few million tons of plastic waste to the oceans. The garbage follows ocean currents everywhere in the world, even appearing in Antarctica, and making animals under the ocean become miserable. Therefore, science tells us that the ocean is actually "choking" for people.

2 words " choking" is a metaphorical concept, but it also comes from reality. And you will fully understand that fact through what was found in the throat of a new green turtle washed up on the Cape Town coast (South Africa) recently.

The new green turtle washed up on the Cape Town coast (South Africa) recently.

Specifically, a 23kg turtle was found on Struisbaai beach (Cape Town, South Africa), in a state of extreme shortness of breath. Experts then took him to Two Oceans Aquarium to conduct an autopsy.

"We thought about the case of lung infection or pneumonia, so initially treated with antibiotics" - quoted the institute's announcement.

"But a few days later, the status of the tortoise is getting weaker and weaker."

Dr. Malan van Zyl of the institute then performed X-rays, and pulled out two objects in the turtle's trachea.

These are the two objects in the turtle's windpipe found by the doctors.

If they still haven't figured out what they are, the left side is a piece of seaweed - something they usually eat. And on the right is a strip of plastic bags! According to the report, the turtle confuses nylon strips with seaweed, leading to airway obstruction.

But indeed, even with our eyes, we can mistake, the turtle.

"In 10 days, the turtle has gone through so many things, from getting to the beach, going to the recovery center and having to take an X-ray. And recently, we just pulled out the strip of the pouch in the throat of it".

"Currently, it is still in critical condition."

Plastic waste is the main reason why a large number of marine turtle populations disappear.

According to Dr. Malan, plastic garbage is the main reason why a large number of marine turtle populations disappear. In particular, the proportion of child turtles killed by plastic garbage is 4 times higher than that of an adult individual.

The reason is that baby turtles have weaker bodies, and they often have to feed in waters close to the surface - that is, it is easy to touch floating plastic debris. Statistics show that of the 1000 sea turtles found, more than half of the young turtles and 1/4 of the size turtles swallowed plastic garbage. Meanwhile, the rate of garbage scavenging in adult turtles is 1: 7.

This ratio will probably be even higher in the future, considering that the amount of plastic waste in the ocean has tripled in the last 10 years. Experts even believe that this is really a paradox of science: people are increasingly discovering things about the surface of Mars and the Moon, while a lot of mysterious oceans still haven't find out.