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Dead baby turtles wash up on central Queensland beaches after eating plastic
Wednesday February 17, 2021
Dead and sick baby turtles are washing up on Capricorn Coast beaches in numbers never seen before by researchers, after swallowing plastic.
The Department of Environment and Science says several flatback turtles have washed up on central Queensland beaches after eating plastic. Photo: DES
The Department of Environment (DES) said an “unusually large number” of weeks-old flatback turtles have been found on the west coast of Keppel Bay.
Chief Scientific Officer Col Limpus said fragments of floating hard plastics and soft plastics had been found in the…
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