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» Message from the Gyre.
If you haven't already jumped on the environmental bandwagon in some aspect, these haunting photographs will make you think twice about where your lighters and bottle caps end up. (Answer: inside a baby albatross' belly.)
We could get all preachy about the evils of big oil companies or the possible ignorance of our own filthy waste ala garbage island but we'll leave it to the photographs for now. Chris Jordan traveled to Midway Atoll to document how our trash kills tens of thousands of albatross chicks a year. Pretty sick, in a bad way.
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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. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
Posted on November 10, 2009
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parent albatross pick up trash in the sea and think it's food because to them colorful=safe.
— karen on November 12, 2009
I think the true question here is where are the albatross' parents? This is bad parenting if you let your baby albatross eat lighters. I don't see how this is a human problem. Albatross' need to be more responsible to the youth.
— Blake on November 11, 2009