Yet again…plastic bag is the cause of tortoise death

Found this article just yesterday:

27 Feb 08

AUTHORITIES have lashed out at irresponsible litterers after a giant green turtle was found choking to death off a Darwin beach yesterday.

The adult female _ believed to be about 40 years old _ was spotted in distress floating about 200m offshore in Fannie Bay.

It is believed she had swallowed a plastic bag.

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Please, please, please! Don’t litter. It affects your environment more than you know.

(Photo by CLIVE HYDE)

Advice column on Turtletopia

I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting lots of questions in blog comments on the site. So I thought it would be a good idea to start up an advice column to answer your questions as best as I can. I’ve said before, I’m not an expert, but I’m awfully good at researching information and I can certainly find the information for you from good resources, none the less.

With that, I’ll start running an advice column bi-monthly, on the first and the third Friday of the month. That gives you guys about two weeks to get your questions in and I’ll pick them out as I can answer them. I’ll even let you ask them anonymously, if you like. It also gives me time to think up a catchy name for the column.

Send me your questions and let’s see if I can help you out!