Every year huge numbers of loggerhead sea turtles mistake the waste thrown into the sea by man for food. They eat it and die.

Maya is lucky. She was rescued and saved and has now being released into the Marine Protected Area of Tavolara - a small island off Sardinia in the Mediterranean.

The amount of waste threatening creatures like Maya increases in the summer as tourists head to this paradise.

"Unfortunately there is a lot of plastic waste in the sea, in particular plastic bags, along the whole coast," explains zoologist, Alberto Fozzi.

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