"Here comes the fish!"

The keeper shouted, and the sea lions basking in the sun suddenly became refreshed.

There are delicious foods!

Seeing the keeper walking towards the island, several sea lions also entered the water and swam happily in the water.

Through the glass, Tang Xiaoxin saw the sea lion's fins swinging up and down, like paddling.

After a few swings, the fins were attached to the side, the tail was flat, and the body was smooth and streamlined, and with the help of the remaining force of the swing fins just now, it glided gracefully through the water for a distance.

Seeing that it was about to hit a rock, the sea lion raised its head slightly, and its tail flicked.

It floated up lightly and brushed against the stones.

From time to time, he rotates his body in the water, makes a big loop sideways, and swims with a vigorous and sensitive posture.

When the keepers landed on the island, the sea lions swam along.

A sea lion leaps out of the water, jumps lightly onto a rock on the edge, supports its body with its fins, and watches the keeper sway from side to side, eager to eat the fish.

The keeper stretched out his hand, and the sea lion immediately obediently put the tip of his nose to it!

The keeper used a headset to explain to the tourists: "This is a daily health check-up!" Look at their eyes, nose, skin. ”

The sea lion was very cooperative, and the keeper tossed two small fish from a small bucket to feed it.

Then I blew the whistle and started the behavior training.

"Here, shake hands!"

The sea lion lifted one side of its fin, placed it in the keeper's palm, and then switched hands.

"Well done!"

The keeper fed it two small fish.

Tourists exclaimed, "Wow, that's so good!" ”

A child, holding his parent's hand, looked at the sea lions, and shouted, "I want to play with the sea lions too!" ”

When the sea lion eats the fish, it makes a rough cry of "whoop" in excitement.

Seeing its excited appearance, the keeper touched his head to appease him, and said with a smile: "Eh, this is a beautiful thing to eat fish." ”

After checking the workout, start throwing fish into the water!

A sea lion burst out, biting the fish and falling back into the water with a "poof" sound, splashing a large white splash that stirred up the pool water.

Surfaced, his head swayed from side to side, looking ready to go.

The keeper threw a fish at Tang Xiaoxin and them!

Suddenly, a sea lion swam quickly under the water, jumped out of the water and drew an arc, grabbed the fish and burrowed back into the water, with a graceful and swift posture.

Sometimes the keeper is seen stretching out his palm and jumping back to shore with the tip of his nose touching.

Tang Xiaoxin and the others widened their eyes and applauded!

After watching the sea lions eat fish, Qian Keke said: "It's almost noon, let's have lunch, right?" I'm hungry when I see them eating fish! ”

Tang Xiaoxin said: "Wait a minute, go and see that sculpture." ”

Next to the sea lion house, there is a sculpture of a sea lion!

However, unlike other sculptures, this sculpture is made of metal scrap and plastic.

The body is sprayed with black and white paint, dirty, with a slum graffiti feeling, the back is a colorful plastic sheet, which is eye-catching, a few loops of fishing line around the neck, and a piece of bare skin on the face, revealing the metal mesh underneath.

The most striking thing is its round black eyes, which look a little frightened, and seems to be puzzled, not knowing why it is injured, and it is uncomfortable to look at.

On the sign next to it, the caption asks, "When you think of the ocean, what do you think of?" ”

In Tang Xiaoxin's mind, penguins, sea lions, and dolphins suddenly appeared in various cute animals.

Qian Keke thought of the beautiful beach, the bright sunshine, the sea breeze, the waves crashing, the children building sand castles, playing and chasing on the sand barefoot, and laughing.

"The ocean determines the hue of our planet, gives birth to life, and is home to countless creatures......

But did you know that 380 billion plastic bags and other packaging materials are used globally every year, and more than 8 million tons of plastic waste flow into the ocean every year? Today, plastic waste is already threatening the health of ecosystems, marine animals and even humans. ”

Both were shocked by this figure, 8 million tons!?

The beautiful beaches, sea breezes, smiling children, and cute marine animals that I imagined just now have all turned into all kinds of plastic garbage, piled up on the shore in large quantities, floating in the sea, and mixing with animal corpses, exuding an unpleasant smell.

Plastic waste has become a huge threat to marine life and marine ecosystems!

Larger plastic items, such as bags, straws, plastic bottles, ropes, takeaway packaging, and many other things we use in our daily lives, are referred to as "big plastic waste." In addition to making beaches dirty, large plastics can also pose a threat to wildlife, such as being ingested or entangled.

Some plastics stay in the sea for a long time, and they will be covered with algae and become food for the eyes of animals.

The albatross's parents collected them with hope and fed them to their children, and it didn't take long for the chicks to die.

Dissecting whale turtle carcasses revealed countless bellies full of plastic.

A few years ago, there was a widely circulated video, a researcher found an abnormality in the nose of a sea turtle, at first thought it was some kind of parasite, but when it was pulled halfway through, it was actually a straw. During the process of pulling out the straw, the turtle had a bright red nosebleed, looked painful, and struggled constantly, and it took ten minutes to pull it out.

There are also sea lions, which are entangled in fishing nets and can't get rid of themselves, and the longer they grow, the tighter they get entangled, and they are deeply strangled into the flesh, and if no one rescues them, they can only die slowly.

Plastics are difficult to degrade, and when they wander in the sea, they will be worn out due to the action of cold and heat, sun, waves, wind, sand and gravel, and gradually become fragile and disintegrate, turning into thousands of small particles, which are called microplastics.

Microplastics are no less lethal than large plastic waste, and are easily eaten by organisms at the bottom of the food chain such as mussels and zooplankton. It cannot be digested, and can only accumulate in the body for a long time, and in severe cases, it can get sick or even die.

When small sea creatures eat plastic, it affects all creatures in the food chain, including humans.

Although the adverse effects on human health are not yet clear, the effects on some organisms have been confirmed.

Microplastics can enter biological tissues, cause inflammation or cause damage, and microplastics often have chemical additives, various organic pollutants, once accumulated to a certain extent, it will cause serious health problems, especially the endocrine system, causing developmental and reproductive lesions.

Tang Xiaoxin was horrified to watch!

The tourists next to him also had heavy expressions, shaking their heads and sighing.

"Maybe we humans will be eliminated by ourselves."

"I hope everyone is more environmentally conscious, this epidemic is bad enough."

"Eh, it's always time that the board doesn't hit me and I can't get up in a hurry."

"What can we do?"