ISSN: 2375-4397
Misbah Younis
Plastic pollution is interlinked with other global, national and local environmental problems and development challenges such as loss of biodiversity, climate change, global warming. Astola Island is a very rich biodiversity hotspot, acknowledged as the first marine protected area in Pakistan June, 2017. The Green turtle are considered as endangered species, listed in IUCN red list. Plastic ingestion is growing global problem which affects biodiversity on earth. There is also a saw-scaled viper, endemic to island and it is the home to a variety of bird’s