There’s a saying: when you go to the beach, take pictures and leave only footprints. But along the newly refreshed Sanibel Causeway, a naturalist says that’s not what’s happening.
He called community correspondent Austin Schargorodski out to the causeway, because he says trash has been piling up there and it’s putting local wildlife at risk.Watch to see what Ranger Rob Howell has been picking up and why it threatens wildlife:
Naturalist says litter piling up on Sanibel Causeway, putting wildlife in danger
On the surface, the refreshed Sanibel Causeway looks beautiful. But when you look a little closer… “In between every single rock – fishing line and trash,” said naturalist Ranger Rob Howell.
Howell said he regularly fills up buckets of it. Schargorodski ran into Connie Lawson who was walking the beach doing the same thing…