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Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle

In my time in Hawaii I truly developed intimate relationships with these beautiful creatures. Despite Sea Turtles having survived since before the time of the dinosaurs, these creatures never had humans and their pollution to contend with. For the first time ever they are developing tumors that eventually cover their bodies and migrate internally, ultimately killing the host. In Hawaii this is mostly caused by the monocrop agriculture system that requires intensive chemical use which ends up in the surrounding ocean. Fittingly it is often the same missionary families that were critical players in the illegal overthrow of Hawaii that own most of the agricultural land that pollutes Hawaii's ocean environment today.