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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 16809974" data-attributes="member: 158020">කාල_තියෙන්නේ_මේවයි-Plastic In Birds Stomachs- Photographer Chris Jordan, who specializes in large-scale works that depict the magnitude of our consumerism  and its impact on our environment, has brought us these heart-wrenching  images of birds killed by ingesting plastics that increasingly pollute  our oceans. For three years, the Seattle-based photographer and  a small crew of cinematographers have been filming the albatross living  and breeding on the island of Midway Atoll, in the Pacific, more than  2,400 miles from Alaska. The birds, which normally feed on squid and  other animals that swim near the surface of the water at night, have  instead been accidentally swallowing pieces of floating plastic, often  mistaking them for food, that now litter the world’s oceans. The birds  then return to the island, regurgitate the plastic and feed it to their  young. Of the 500,000 albatross chicks born here each year, about 200,000  die, mostly from dehydration or starvation. The chicks that died from  those causes had twice as much plastic in their stomachs as those that  died for other reasons. The plastic punctures the bird’s stomachs,  creating life-threatening injuries. Other times they die of choking,  dehydration or starvation as the plastic leaves little room for water or  food. 20 tons of plastic debris ends up on Midway each year and  five tons of that is fed to the chicks. Aside from, albatross studies  have shown up to 1 million seabirds choke or get tangled in plastic nets  or debris every year. About 100,000 seals, sea lions, whales, dolphins,  other marine mammals and sea turtles suffer the same fate. Midway  Atoll is a critical habitat in the Pacific Ocean. Three million  seabirds and 250 different marine species populate the island, the  nearby reefs and lagoons. It is the winter home for most of the world’s  remaining populations of the Laysan, Black-footed, and Short-tailed  albatrosses, as well as fourteen other species of seabirds.  Critically-endangered Hawaiian monk seals, green sea turtles and about  300 spinner dolphins call this remote paradise their home. <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9EPh8ajPiAo/U6PVfrqcScI/AAAAAAAAzQA/pWypWi7CKLI/albatross-midway-atoll-9%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-N4LUe7wBPWg/U6PVhCpCBHI/AAAAAAAAzQI/w40EH0Y-nVY/albatross-midway-atoll-8%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-WCZzZTnwEQU/U6PViiYrK5I/AAAAAAAAzQQ/IHvkmMWWd6A/albatross-midway-atoll-10%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FpphfXfn4Uw/U6PVj7HuAmI/AAAAAAAAzQU/3ssy4okB6AM/albatross-midway-atoll-11%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-moo6kKaWTek/U6PVlB01sdI/AAAAAAAAzQg/kGk8SECstqY/albatross-midway-atoll-1%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-IHFl-O2RTPk/U6PVmgGkmjI/AAAAAAAAzQo/rcEneaAtcaw/albatross-midway-atoll-2%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-b4C9wSS7dGk/U6PVoNZDcGI/AAAAAAAAzQw/EbJe6ReYMZI/albatross-midway-atoll-3%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3VqQQ9cnPug/U6PWPJc-LZI/AAAAAAAAzQ4/igjI7cZRWZ0/albatross-midway-atoll-4%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NBOlMRDG7xU/U6PWXCLLFjI/AAAAAAAAzRA/jhYMxXI3pbM/albatross-midway-atoll-5%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-rKBr_B9zHxI/U6PWdOjEOvI/AAAAAAAAzRI/e2pZ-78NnhA/albatross-midway-atoll-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-T2tzsuMlWdQ/U6PWjTb6N7I/AAAAAAAAzRQ/gdhkrQVwiOk/albatross-midway-atoll-7%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </blockquote>

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