Zoo Med's Floating Turtle Log
Counter out one of Zoo Med's hottest selling products! This realistic, floating Turtle Log is the -carat accessory for your aquarium. It's ...
Counter out one of Zoo Med's hottest selling products! This realistic, floating Turtle Log is the -carat accessory for your aquarium. It's ...
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It could be described as the world's largest rubbish dump. It is an area larger than the state of Texas where plastic rubbish congregates. It sits out in the centre of the Northern Pacific gyre between California and Hawaii. It is made up of plastic bottles, toothbrushes, old fishing nets, printer cartridges, plastic bags and many other familiar plastic items. Any piece of plastic that is abandoned, dropped in the street, on a roadside or in a playground will more likely than not contribute to this ever growing pile of waste.
Why There is Vast Amounts of Plastic in the Sea. 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year. 10% of all plastic produced ends up in the ocean. Some of this is caused by spillage from large ships and industrial waste 80% of the plastic at sea is domestic waste: litter on the streets that has found its way down stormwater drains and out into the ocean. Trash VortexOnce out at sea this plastic gets caught up on the ocean currents. These currents push the debris into the low energy centre of the gyre, the result being a huge patch of floating garbage larger than the state of Texas. This island floats in the North Pacific sub-tropical gyre that circulates clockwise in a slow spiral. Winds are light so once the plastic has reached this area it will stay for many years. Some of the plastic in this area has been there for over forty years. As a consequence, this waste pile is ever growing.
This island of rubbish is situated between California and Hawaii. This is the breeding ground of many of the world's rarest marine mammals and sea birds. The plastic invades their habitat and endangers their lives.
Implications of the Garbage PatchThe plastic has a direct impact on all wildlife that shares its environment with this artificial floating island. It can lead to deformities in marine life. A young turtle can become entangled in a plastic ring and then, unable to free itself, it will spend the rest of its life with this plastic ring wrapped around it. As the turtle grows the plastic will cause restrictions and the shell will mutate.
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Enviros Sue USA to Protect Caribbean Coral
The Center for Biological Range and Mary Donnelly, with the Sea Turtle Conservancy, claim the State Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedures Act. The plaintiffs demand judicial review of an
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Mountain Lake's gunk to be cleared in Presidio Mountain Lake's gunk to be cleared in PresidioThe preferred cleanup design, which will be helped along by a $5.5 million contribution from Caltrans, involves dredging about 4 feet, or 11500 cubic yards, of dregs from a barge that would be either floating on the lake or sitting on the shoreline.and more » |
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Luxury resort Atlantis offers guests the best of everything — at a price The repair to also has more than a dozen marine habitats that show off the likes of clown fish, sea turtles, starfish and sharks. There's "Atlantis Pals," where you can dream up a keepsake stuffed animal, a pottery place, a Caribbean cottage-styled shopping |
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South Beaches: Renourishment begins in March The seaweed occurs instinctively in vast floating rafts offshore where it provides habitat to a wide selection of small marine life. It usually stays offshore, but is on pushed onshore by winds. It poses no health hazard to humans and just as quickly |
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Tropical treasures of the natural kind They are protected in two reserves on Marvellous Cayman, the largest of the three islands, and I met them in their third habitat, the breeding centre within the Monarch Elizabeth II Botanic Park, which is also home to nearly two thirds of Cayman's best |