News Forum - Dead sea turtle with plastic lodged in its throat washes up on Phuket beach

[Thaiger]

A dead sea turtle with plastic lodged in its mouth and throat washed up on Mai Khao beach in Phuket yesterday, July 11. Winai Seh-ew, the village chief of Mai Khao subdistrict in Thalang district, received a call from lifeguards at Mai Khao beach to say a big Hawksbill turtle carcass had washed up on the shore. Upon inspection, the sea turtle was found to have plastic lodged in its mouth and throat, which was most likely the turtle’s cause of death. The lifeguards said the turtle had a foul smell, so they expected that it died many hours prior […]

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[KaptainRob]

How did a turtle get from the Dead sea to the ocean?  Walked overland!

[Naanlaew]

Horrible. That has to be worse than plastic bags placed over one's head.

Edited July 12, 2022 by Naanlaew

[Smiler]

So sad such beautiful creatures 

[Benroon]

Amazing isn’t it - always aphrodisiac reasons, tigers were almost wiped out due to the Chinese believing it would give them a porn stars cock, so whist the tiger population were decimated as a result, ask any bar girl if she’s ever seen a well endowed Chinese punter !!