Dead Albatross Key to Our Future?
Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a bird consuming all this plastic trash thinking it was food. But, the albatross is known for foraging over open oceans in search for food. Whatever they see, that scoop it up and take it back to their home to eat and to feed their chicks. Sad. Scary, too. Thanks to Chris Jordan for this photo to alert us. We are such a consumer-focused society that one by one we add to the trash from our homes, our schools, our workplaces and when we travel. If you’re sitting out on a boat in the ocean and drop a plastic pottle, you might think, “Oh, well, what’s one bottle in the midst of an ocean?” Right? Wrong! You probably have heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that is a floating mass of trash/garbage…about 3.5 TONS of garbage! Some estimate that the floating heap of trash is about twice the size of TEXAS! We’re talking about approximately 538,000 square miles of trash. It’s a floating junk yard! Much of it comes from land, one estimate being 80% of the floating junk yard comes from irresponsible disposal of trash on land and eventually makes it to the oceans. Our oceans are the biggest connection humans have to Creation and the beginning of our world. Think about...
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One of my passions is conservation of our oceans and sea life. I am especially interested in the amazing sea turtles and the challenges they face today in our oceans. Our family visits in Jupiter, FL usually entail a visit to the Loggerhead Marine Life Center of Juno Beach. It’s a very professionally run sea turtle hospital, rehabilitation and education center. It’s never too early for children to start learning about our responsibilities in helping to protect healthy ocean life. Sea turtles have been around since the beginning of time and today are beautiful yet challenged. Florida, of course, is one of the states in the U.S. that has federally protected beach areas for sea turtle nesting and hatching. Sea turtles swim thousands of miles and return to the beach of their own birth to lay their eggs. Hatchlings face many obstacles to survival and places like the Juno Center take the ones that don’t make it all the way out to sea and allow them to grow and get stronger and then release them into the ocean. Stayed tuned for more...
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National Audubon Society
Help support the efforts of our National Audubon Society in conservation of natural bird habitats. Visit: www.birds.audubon.org