Ocean Conservation

As humans we tend to find our home, and we cherish our home. Home is something that means the world to us.
To the marine life, the ocean is their home. However, not many people care that by littering and polluting our oceans, they are killing someone's home. People also don't realize that by throwing their plastic straw in the ocean, they are consequently affecting their own lives.

Most littered items

Trash in our oceans can kill fish and other marine life by getting entangled or eating the trash. Sea turtles wash up on shore with plastic wrapped around their bodies, hindering their ability to grow their shell sufficiently and eventually killing them.

Information on Ocean Conservancy's website

I personally think that ocean conservation should become more of a big deal publicly than it currently is. There are individuals who seek out this problem and help it, as well as programs like Ocean Conservancy. Last year in their national coast cleanup, they found so much trash. It's crazy to think that there is even more.
"More than 18 million pounds of trash... was collected by nearly 800,000 volunteers during Ocean Conservancy's 2015 International Coastal Cleanup according to a new report released" (oceanconservancy.org).

Save our Oceans!


Sites

 "2016 Ocean Trash Index." Ocean Conservancy:. Web. 01 June 2016. 

<http://www.oceanconservancy.org/our-work/international-coastal-cleanup/2016-ocean-trash-index.html>.