Does a plastic bag stuck on whale’s mouth indicate more ocean trash?
The floating object in the humpback whale’s path at first looked like an ocean sunfish, which are roundish and can often be seen lazily floating on the water’s surface.
The floating object in the humpback whale’s path at first looked like an ocean sunfish, which are roundish and can often be seen lazily floating on the water’s surface.
The purpose of this project is to photograph and document how organisms are affected by plastic in the marine environment of the United States. This could be death by fishing line, goose barnacles growing on a plastic bottle, or discarded tyres creating an artificial habitat, etc.
For observations of organisms affected by plastic in the United States terrestrial environment, please ...mais ↓