{O/C} Finally, we take you to the United Arab Emirates, where turtles are literally dying on beaches because of plastics.
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No turtle entrails, but this turtle is lying unconscious, with its shell ashen and stomach taut.
This is truly illustrative of how the rigours of too much plastics in the ocean are taking a toll on turtles.
Turtles may have survived the ordeal of mass extinction, but they don't appear to be surviving this excruciating and fiendish extermination, "orchestrated" by human beings.
Plastics account for the deaths of 75 percent of all dead green turtles, and 57 percent of all loggehead turtles in Sharjah, a city in the UAE.
Shrivelled balloons, plastic bags, packages, bottles and bottle caps are just among the battery of plastics that serve as the culprits for the turtles' tragic deaths.
Having been lending an ear to turtles, this researcher is adamant marine turtles are crucial to maintaining an ecosystem.
{Soundbite} FADI YAGHMOUR, Scientific Researcher, EPAA: If there is ever a time to care about turtles, it is now. But also in terms of just a pragmatic interest, marine turtles are valuable in that they are ecosystems' stewards.
Plastic clogs turtles' intestines, which stands to reason why just one shard of debris can kill them.
They are inclined to mistakenly believe that plastic bags and ropes are sustenance because they resemble cuttlefish and jellyfish.
Yaghmour also warned that the loss of these turtles is tantamount to the demise of the ecosystem.
Ensuring turtles will not end up paying the ultimate price for humans' trash crisis is one tall order that entails a concerted effort by all human beings to overcome.
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