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Climate Change: Plastic pollution affects Galapagos Islands, seawater, beaches and animals – IBTimes India

Plastic pollution has been found in seawater, on beaches and inside marine animals at the Galapagos Islands.

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Plastic pollution has been found in seawater, on beaches and inside marine animals at the Galapagos Islands.
A new study – by the University of Exeter, Galapagos Conservation Trust (GCT) and the Galapagos Science Center – found plastic in all marine habitats at the island of San Cristobal, where Charles Darwin first landed in Galapagos.
At the worst “hotspots” – including a beach used by the rare “Godzilla” marine iguana – more than 400 plastic particles…

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