Marine Life Conservation

Marine Life Conservation & Protection

Marine Life Conservation efforts with Beach raking helps to remove trash such as plastic bags, bottles, cans, beach toys and micro-trash such as, bottle caps, cigarette butts, plastic straws, fishing gear, syringes, and glass. These unwanted items can be detrimental to wildlife. Marine animals easily mistaken these trash particles as food. Sea turtles mistake plastic bags for jelly fish (their favorite meal) and suffocate to death upon ingesting plastic bags. They also become entangled in fishing line, nets and hooks left on shore.  

Fish, birds and other marine animals also accidently eat plastic straws and stirrers, causing a real danger to their lives. “From plankton to whales, animals across ocean ecosystems have been contaminated by plastic. Plastic has been found in 59% of seabirds like albatross and pelicans, in 100% of sea turtle species, and more than 25% of fish sampled from seafood markets around the world”. (Source Ocean Conservancy).  

Beach cleaning can help to save these creatures mitigate the problem caused by ocean debris and the dangers that plastic pollution poses to marine life.