In the open ocean baby turtles will eat anything they come across, including plastic fibers, affecting their health and survival.
The turtles represented five of the world's seven species: green, loggerhead, hawksbill, olive ridley and flatback. Greens, loggerheads and hawksbill turtles are all classified as endangered.
Among the turtles from Australia's Indian coast region, meanwhile, 28 percent of flatbacks, 21 percent of loggerheads and nine percent of green turtles contained plastic. "Juvenile turtles have evolved to develop in the open ocean, where predators are relatively scarce," Emily Duncan, lead author of the study from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter in the U.K., said in a statement."However, our results suggest that this evolved behavior now leads them into a 'trap'—bringing them into highly polluted areas such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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