Beautiful Release of Sea Turtle Trapped in Fishing Net Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity (VIDEO)

As this  heartbreaking video painfully illustrates, turtles are the unfortunate victims of ghost fishing nets. Ghost nets, or fishing nets that have been cut or dropped off of boats and left to float in the ocean, pose a serious threat to marine life. Imagine if YOU were caught in a net like this! You’d lose your ability to move around freely, and seek the basic resources you require. Well, this is the sad reality that many sea turtles face every single day; when they become caught in nets, they lose their ability to surface for air, which often leads to death. Thankfully, there are kind people working every day to release these poor creatures from fishing nets. But we should work to make sure these doesn’t happen in the first place.

Unfortunately, ghost nets are just one form of trash we leave behind in the oceans that threatens the lives of marine animals. It’s estimated that around 700 marine species are faced with extinction due to the threat plastic poses to them from entanglement, Pollution, and ingestion. With about 8.8 million tons of plastic that make their way from land to the oceans every single year, it’s no surprise that these remarkable marine animals are suffering on our behalf. The good news is we can all do something – and it doesn’t have to involve physically freeing a turtle from a net…

To learn more about how you can use your everyday choices to help save animals just like the turtle, check out these the posts below:

• 6 Ways You Can Help Save Our Oceans
• 10 Simple Actions That Just Might Save Our World’s Oceans From Plastic
• 5 Simple Go-To Tips to Shrink Your Plastic Footprint
• No Ocean, No Us: 3 Reasons We Should Care About the State of Our Oceans
• If You Took Seafood Out of Your Diet, How Would it Really Help the Planet?