Marine+Wildlife

The Kenyan coastline is accompanied by a fringing reef that runs nearly its entire length. Plenty of diverse fish species can be experienced by snorklers. However, it is not all as tropical as it may seem. Plastic fishing nets are tangling up whales, seabirds, dolphins and turtles such as the common green turtle, hawksbill trutle, and olive ridley. In addition, Kenya is the second worst polluter of the ocean in Africa. Major causes of the pollution of the sea include: Most of the solid rubbish is amde of various sorts of plastic, which does not fall to bits like paper or wood. A nylon net lost from a fishing boat can float in the ocean for 50 years or more, and during that time it keeps catching and killing fish. We have treated the sea as a bottomless dustbin, pouring into it endless amounts of sewage, waste, and chemicals, in the hope that somehow the sea would render them harmless. Similarly, the sea is now showing signs of ill-health, and its shores display the evidence of damage.
 * //__Marine Wildlife __//**
 * TOXIC SPILLS
 * FOOD CONTAMINANTS
 * CHEMICAL ACCUMULATION