The Plight of the Orca
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- The Orca whale lives in the Pacific Ocean. There are about 50,000 Orca whales left in the world. The Orca whales diet consist of fish and squid. They are apex predator in the ocean. Also, an Orca whale can weigh up to 8,800 pounds.
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- Ocean Pollution has been effecting oceans from later then the 1960's. Ocean pollution effects many animals, such as turtles, whales, seabirds, and fish. Ocean pollution can be caused by trowing trash into the ocean, wind or storms blowing the trash in or it can be from boats. There is reportly more then 8 million tons of trash pollution in oceans.
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- Ocean pollution affects Orca whales tremendously. The Orca whales can inhale or accidentally eat the trash. The trash can go into their stomach and it sits in their stomach making them extremely sick, leading to death. The fish the Orca whales eat can also get sick from the trash and then when the whales eat the fish, the whales will also get sick.
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- There is chemical ocean pollution. Chemical ocean pollution also has been around for years dating back t the 1960's , but more or likly has been around much longer then that.There is reportedly more then 87,000 metric tons of chemical pollution in the oceans affecting millions of marin animals.
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- Now, there is many programs and procts going on to help the animal life and to clean up the oceans. There are procects like The Great Pacific Grabage Patch cleaning up oceans trying to make life better for marin life. There are also procects going on to clean up the chemical pollution. There are compinies also pitching in all around the world to help clean up oceans.
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- There are so many benifits to cleaning up the ocean. Such as, less marin life will die, there will be less sickness and disesases through out the marin life, and the fish we eat will be less sick and we won't get sick. The Orca whales will have an better eniviorment to live in and hopefully all marin life will have a better life.
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