Shocking campaign with stitching, marine life points to a danger of plastic in oceans

Animals “The plastic that you used one time, troubling our oceans forever”: that is the slogan of a new and shocking campaign of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international non-profit organization that stands up for the life in the sea. On the campaign images are a seal and a sea turtle and to see that the choke in a plastic bag. Sea Shepherd intends to draw attention to the devastating impact that plastic has on our oceans.

For clarity: the images are not real. But according to a spokesperson of the organization is the problem therefore not less real. For the ships of the Sea Shepherd see say regular animals in this way are in trouble.

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“Something small and ondoordachts from our daily lives can have enormous damage in the nature, without us even realize,” says Guiga Giacomo of Tribal Worldwide São Paulo on the website of the organization. He has worked with Sea Shepherd to the campaign. “We try to find a solution by as many people as possible to achieve with our campaign and make them aware. Because with small changes in our behavior, we can counter this.” The organization presents a series of tips to our use of plastic on a daily basis to reduce. Through the use of reusable bags and avoiding chewing gum, for example.

Sea Shepherd is best known for her actions against whaling and the hunting of seals. It records the organization's illegal activities and report them to the authorities.

The association cleans up the world's beaches and collect waste in the sea're bobbing about. And she works together with scientists to show the impact of microplastic on marine life.

2050

According to captain Paul Watson – the founder of the Sea Shepherd – warn scientists that by 2050, more plastic in the oceans will be fishing. “Sea Shepherd will do everything to prevent that. Because if the oceans die, we die also.” (read on below)