MIDWAYJOURNEY First Albatross

On his first morning on Midway, Chris begins searching for the remains of albatrosses that have died from ingesting plastic. It didn't take long to find his first photographic subjects.

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• Midway
• midwayjourney
• Chris Jordan
• albatross
• papahanumokuakea
• Midway Atoll
• #midwayj
• pacific islands
• atoll
• plastic pollution
• plastic
• pollution
• gyre
• garbage patch
• garbage
• vortex
• carcass
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• Manuel Maqueda
• Victoria Sloan Jordan
• Jan Vozenilek
• Bill Weaver

[ArcarionMedia]

I didn't think a trip on Google Maps to a remote island would bring up all these videos about plastic garbage washing up on it and devastating the life there. Thanks for posting! I'm going to go cry now.

[ukuhehe]

These images are on par with those of Spinner Dolphins being slaughtered in Tuna boat nets

[Lagolop]

Thanks to the North Pacific Gyre, many sea birds die from ingesting plastics .... mostly of Asian origin. Plastic Bic lighters, razors, tooth brushes. You name it. The adults bring it back to the chicks and regurgitate. The chicks fill up on this crap and eventually stop eating as they feel full. Midway is an amazing place.

[ShanknBake63]

i feared this day would come