Midway. Message from the Gyre

www.midwayfilm.com
These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September 2009 on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. 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. 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.

~Chris Jordan
October 2009

http://www.chrisjordan.com/
http://www.midwayjourney.com/

Music by Christen Lien http://itsnotaviolin.com/

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[David YU]

We are the World~驚心動魄的文明浩劫皆因人心而起，但地球只有一個，­而我們卻無法搬離。

[featherbirdlady]

2009... where have we **been**???? WHY do we insist on using plastics when glass is by far a better choice????

[chalmich]

At times like this I am truly embarrassed to part of the human race. Thank you for posting this video. I am sharing it with my friends and family.

[crimsonlung]

Listen to yourself, you are calling me "Oblivious Brain Cell Lacking Twit" yet the comparison you just made looks like a toddler wrote it.

There are berries in the wild that are poisonous, there are still people dumb enough today that will eat poisonous berries. Cavemen ate berries, they slowly determined which made them sick, and which were good to eat. Plastic is not nutritious and does not look like food to an intelligent creature.

You are a fucking idiot, thumbs down lol.

[Keremali Sertkaya]

We are very polluting the world.