This is the shocking moment a mother turtle struggled to nest on a beach filled with rubbish and marine debris.
It took the mother turtle about five hours to get back in the water after nesting. Other baby turtles can be seen battling their way to the water through the rubbish after hatching.
A female sea turtle is struggling to lay eggs on Greta beach where it is surrounded by rubbish
‘There were four baby turtles dead and one lying weakly on the sand when I visited the beach last year,’ said Dr Liu.
He stressed the problem of marine debris had posed immense danger to the marine animals. He described the shore was full of rubbish.
The amount of rubbish that got washed up to the beach cannot be simply handled by a few people.
He noticed the female turtle swimming to the shore and trying to find a nesting place.
Piles of rubbish from nearby countries were washed ashore to the Greta beach on Christmas Island (file photo) which is situated between Indonesia and Australia
Christmas Island is a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, close to Indonesia