Incomes dwindle as ebbing plastic wastes clog fish breeding, tourist attraction sites

Wasini Beach Management Unit Chair Noordin Musa displays some of the piles of plastic waste washed ashore by waves at Mkunguni, Wasini Island. [Joackim Bwana, Standard]

Wasini Island, a secluded tourist gem, is also home to more than 250 fish species and a breeding ground for turtles. But this natural habitat to a lot of biodiversity continues to face catastrophic destruction due to heavy plastic waste in the mangrove forest.

The massive plastic waste that washes ashore on the island, ends up in the mangrove forest in Mkunguni, causing deaths of fish and turtles in their numbers.