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Study Finds Plastic Ingestion Is Widespread in Sea Turtles Off Australia’s Coast

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Plastic Ingestion and Entanglement Documented in Every Species of Marine Turtle
Around 83% of green turtles and 86% of loggerhead turtles found off the coast of Queensland were found to have plastics within them, a study from Deakin, James Cook and Murdoch universities found. Researchers examined the contents of the stomach, intestines, cloaca and bladder of stranded or captured turtles collected from the Indian Ocean off
Australiaconservationenvironmental researchgreat barrier reefmarine debrismarine lifemicroplasticsocean pollutionplastic pollutionQueenslandsea turtleswildlife ingestion
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