Half a million hermit crabs killed on remote islands due to plastic pollution
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More than half a million hermit crabs have been killed after getting trapped in plastic debris on two remote island groups. According to a recent report, 508,000 crabs died on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean, along with 61,000 on Henderson Island in the South Pacific. The report states one to two crabs per metre squared of beach were being killed by litter collected near the ocean.