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Series exploring the complex interface between a growing human population and wildlife

Monty Don presents a series exploring the complex interface between a growing human population and wildlife

Shared Planet: Ocean Plastic and Seabirds

30/09/2014

Ocean Plastic and Seabirds

BBC Radio 4 - Shared Planet, Ocean Plastic and Seabirds

Is plastic litter making the ocean a perilous place for fulmars and other seabirds?

As plastic continues to accumulate in all the world's oceans, how is it affecting the wildlife that calls the sea its home?

Plastic litter has the knack of finding its way into the ocean. Unfortunately this means that seabirds that have, until relatively recently, been safe to assume that the objects floating on the surface are food are getting a stomach full of trash. Shared Planet finds out how bad the situation is for seabirds like the fulmar and the simple things we can do to reduce the problem.

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