Many aquatic animals die annually choking on plastic bags, or strangled by plastic rings or fishing nets. Many seals have been found with their heads stuck between plastic frisbees that people discard on beaches. Plastic pollution threatens to take the life of many animals.?
The same would have been the fate of this bear cub if an American family had not intervened.?
A video of a family rescuing a baby bear whose head was stuck in a plastic container is going viral.?
Tricia Hurt was out fishing with her family when they came across a bear cub struggling to swim, with its head stuck in a big plastic container. In the almost two minute long video we hear her saying, ¡°We got a bear here. Poor thing has got a tub on its head. It¡¯s scared.¡± The family then tries to pull off the tub from the bear¡¯s head, however the latter gets scared and starts swimming away from the boat.?
Determined to help the baby bear the family turns the boat around and strategize on how to get the plastic container off. Very gently, the man in the video removes the tub from the bear¡¯s head and the cub finally free, takes a different direction to swim in.?
After the cub is freed Tricia can be heard saying, ¡°We saved our little bear,¡± with relief and excitement.?
The video was shared with the caption, ¡®Never dreamt we would ever do this in our lifetime. Out on Marshmiller Lake yesterday with Brian Hurt and Brady Hurt when we spotted this poor bear¡¯.?
People have been applauding the family for their efforts and risk to save the bear. This is how some reacted:?
A few days ago, video and images of a group of fishermen rescuing 0live Ridley turtles from fishing nets went viral. The incident occurred on the shores of Benaulim beach in Goa.?
The local fishermen¡¯s gesture came to the notice of Goa¡¯s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant who hailed them for their collective effort in rescuing five Olive Ridley turtles, a protected species.??
Pramod Sawant tweeted that the kind gesture on part of the fishermen was a sign of respect towards the ecosystem, a fact that needed to be lauded.
¡®I am grateful for the kind gesture of my Goan brothers, making our state a better place to live by respecting the nature's ecosystem,¡¯ his tweet read.?
Thanks to people like these, there are some animals who get saved from being killed by pollution spread by humans.?
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