Message from the Gyre
Posted by Marc | 18-10-2009 17:51 | Category: Environment
Horrible pictures, made by photographer Chris Jordan, of dead albatross youngsters made this month at the Midway Atoll [Wikipedia], a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. Their bellies are full of plastic caused by feeding. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way.
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