Do you have any links to any articles? I guess I imagined that all the
plastic out there is supermarket bags, and that it's too big to be
dangerous to a bird, but I suppose that isn't true.
Peter Shute
wrote on Friday, 8 August 2008 1:15
PM:
> Mostly death by ingestion. From memory, chicks are affected as well.
>
> There's been a fair bit in the northern hemisphere press on the
> subject over the last few months.
>
> Regards, Laurie
>
> On 08/08/2008, at 12:50 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
>
>> I didn't know that plastic was killing significant numbers of
>> seabirds. Are you referring to deaths by entanglement, or do they
>> swallow bits of it as well? Any idea which species it is mainly
>> affecting?
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
>> wrote on Thursday, 7 August 2008
>> 7:32 PM:
>>
>>> That is only a drop in the ocean, pardon the pun, with the Sydney
>>> Sunday Magazine estimating that plastic kills more than a million
>>> seabirds, 100,000 whales seals and turtles etc plus an article that
>>> the bush meat trade in Africa is pushing most African primates to
>>> extinction, so humans are a non caring destructive lot.
>>> Cheers Chris
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