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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Birds from every continent except Antarctica have been photographed nesting or tangled in our rubbish. Photos were submitted by people from all over the world to an online project called Birds and Debris.
\nThe scientists running the project say they see birds ensnared \u2013 or nesting \u2013 in everything from rope and fishing line to balloon ribbon and a flip-flop.<\/p>\n

Nearly a quarter of the photographs show birds nesting or entangled in disposable face masks. The focus of the project is on capturing the impact of waste \u2013 particularly plastic pollution \u2013 on the avian world.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, if a bird builds a nest using long fibrous materials \u2013 like seaweed, branches or reeds \u2013 the chances are it will have human debris in its nest somewhere,\u201d said Dr Alex Bond from the Natural History Museum in London, and one of the researchers involved.<\/p>\n

The project, which he and his colleagues have been running for four years, aims to draw attention to the widespread problem of plastic waste in the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you start looking for this stuff, you\u2019ll see it everywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this has really illustrated the huge geographic scope \u2013 we had reports from Japan , Australia, Sri Lanka, the UK, North America \u2013 it\u2019s truly a global issue.<\/p>\n

\u201d In a recent study, the team looked into how many of the photos being submitted feature pandemic-related personal protective equipment (PPE). They found that it featured in almost a quarter of the photographs submitted. \u201cIt\u2019s almost all masks,\u201d said Dr Bond.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you think of the different materials a surgical mask is made from \u2013 there\u2019s the elastic that we see tangled around birds\u2019 legs or we might see birds injured by trying to ingest the fabric or the hard piece of plastic that secures it over your nose.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we use this catch-all term of \u2018plastic\u2019 but it\u2019s a whole range of different polymers, and masks are a good example of that.<\/p>\n

The researchers say they want to highlight the \u201csystemic problem\u201d that leads to so much debris ending up in the environment.<\/p>\n

Lead researcher Justine Ammendolia from Dalhousie University in Canada told BBC News that seeing the breadth of the impact on species globally was \u201cdevastating\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn April of 2020, the first sighting of a bird hanging from a facemask in a tree was recorded from Canada and the sightings just internationally cascaded afterwards, \u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really just demonstrates the harm that humans are capable of imposing on the environment in a very short window of time across the world.
\n\u201cChanging to a bamboo toothbrush or a canvas shopping bag is not going to save the world, [because] most large-scale plastic production today is commercial and industrial,\u201d said Dr Bond.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s a combination of top-down policies and bottom-up pressure for us to say \u2018enough is enough\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201d PhD researcher Justine Ammendolia added: \u201cFor people seeing these images for the first time, it\u2019s alright to feel sad.<\/p>\n

But we need to learn from the unnecessary and often invisible suffering that some wildlife experienced during the pandemic. \u201cI hope people use their sadness to fuel their demand for action.
\nDr Bond likened the global action required to address plastic pollution to the Montreal Protocol that banned ozone-depleting chemicals \u2013 a treaty widely considered to be one of the most successful global agreements ever signed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need the same thing with plastic pollution, and we\u2019re moving in that direction, but just very, very slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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