Plastic debris beached on three coral reef islands in the Indian Ocean

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K. Minnaar 1 *, H. Bouwman 1 & R. Choong Kwet Yive 2 1 North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa 2 University of Mauritius, Mauritius Plastic debris beached on three coral reef islands in the Indian Ocean

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K. Minnaar1*, H. Bouwman1 & R. Choong Kwet Yive2

1North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa2University of Mauritius, Mauritius

Plastic debris beached on three coral

reef islands in the Indian Ocean

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Plastics

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Why are they such big concern?

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Science 2015

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Raising awareness

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Aim

• To investigate the presence and composition

of stranded marine debris on the shores of

three remote Mascerene islands

• To determine the spatial concentration

variations between up- and down-current

shores of each island; as well as the

differences between the islands

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Sampling sites

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Sampling sites

Agalega

St Brandon's Rock

Rodrigues

Mauritius

Reunion

20S 80E

200 km

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Plastic transects

+/- 100 m

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Previous study

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Results

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Results

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Results

F1: Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS) of the debris deposits on the up-current

(red) and down-current (green) aspects of Rodrigues

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Results

F2: The up-current (red) and down-current (green) beached debris on Agalega (NMS)

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Results

F3: Differences in debris deposits on the up-current (red) and down-current (green)

aspects of St. Brandon's Rock (NMS)

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Results

F4: Variations in composition and concentration of beached debris on Rodrigues (red),

Agalega (green), and SBR (blue)

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Conclusion

• Most common debris on all three islands:

– Plastic fragments

– Plastic bottles

– Bottle caps

• Large influx of debris from distant locations,

potentially hazardous to local ecosystems

• Large number of flip flops, and RB bottles indicate

possible origin of pollution on Aga and SBR

• SBR is the most vulnerable

• Interventions possible on Agalega, and has already

started on Rodrigues.

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Future studies

• Investigate the presence of microplastic

particles on and around the Mascarene

islands

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THANK YOU

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• Special thank you to:

– PETCO (Sherry Scholtz)

– Plastics SA (John Kieser)


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