Plastic waste pushing turtles to extinction

Tourism Chief Administrative Secretary Wilson Sossion [center] with KWS acting director general Erustus Kanga looking at Hatchlings at the Nyali beach during the world turtle day in Mombasa County. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

A new study has highlighted the rising risk posed by plastic pollution to the endangered sea turtles in the country.

A census by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) along the coastline says the population of sea turtles stands at only 450.