Stats

Unknown
Unknown

Citizen Scientists Track How Plastic Pollution Impacts Birds.

Last month, Donnelly-Greenan published a study with her colleagues that analyzed beach surveys done by trained volunteers—so-called citizen scientists—in six coastal counties. Collectively, the surveyors observed 65,604 marine animal carcasses on California beaches in the past 20 years. Of these, 357 were cases of seabird entanglements. While disturbing, this information is necessary to assess and ultimately offer solutions to the problem of plastics.

https://www.taftmidwaydriller.com/news/20200128/for-love-of-birds-slideshow-is-feb-13?template=ampart

Posted on January 29, 2020 01:09 AM by biohexx1 biohexx1 | 0 comments | Leave a comment
More Journal Posts

Recent observations View All

Loading...
More Observations

About

The purpose of this project is to photograph and document how organisms are affected by plastic in the terrestrial environment of the United States. This could be birds constructing nests with straws or bits of plastic, or organisms using plastic as a habitat, or part of their life cycle, etc.

For observations of organisms affected by plastic in the United States marine environment, ...more ↓

biohexx1 created this project on November 13, 2019
Embed a widget for this project on your website