Seabird

Zealand and the South Pacific were not able to be cultivated in the territories of the Moriori tribe because of those reasons the Moriori lived as hunters and gatherers, where food was almost entirely taken from the sea; this includes fish, seals, and seabirds. Due to the size of the Chatham Islands, they supported only a small population of about 2000…

Author Matt Lewis recalls the fight for his life and encounter with death in his book Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on The Antarctic Seas. After graduating college Matt Lewis takes a job on a fishing vessel that fishes in the frigid Antarctic waters. During his on the Sudur Havid, the name of the ship, Lewis and crewmates ran into a catastrophic storm which lead to the sinking of the ship and the hardest hours of the entirety of his life. After losing his friends and…

Throughout our lifetime, we have seen penguins a time or two whether it be in a zoo, on television, in a magazine, etc. We know cute and funny they look when they walk (waddle), and how they travel thousands of miles to find food for their chicks. Now, look past all the facts we know about penguins. Instead; look at what actually matters, look at the risk of emperor, king, adelie, etc. penguins will become extinct if nothing changes in the near future. These once cute and cuddly looking animals…

as the United States. Feher and Tirdea thinks there are five other large swirls in our oceans where waste is also crowded, including one in the Atlantic. Pek admits on the basis of the marine, the debris size and expanse believe marine animals and seabirds thinks garbage is food. Pek emphasizes the invisible part of the debris continues to affect the marine environment’s overall health. Le Guem argues around 640 thousand tons of fishing gear are estimated to have been lost, abandoned or…

eaten plastic bags. Scientists believe they easily confuse plastic bags with jellyfish, which sea turtles happily munches on. Plastic bags can at worst choke turtles or be in the way of real food . Some other animals very often eaten plastic are seabirds. There are sea birds, marine mammals and turtles that have experienced when they suffocate and suffer from a lack of nutrition that they stuck in or swallowed plastic waste. A round 80% of plastic found in the oceans comes from land where it…

If sea turtles lay about an average of 100 eggs in each nest and lay up to 6 to 8 nest each season, then why are sea turtles endangered if so many of them are being created? Well for starters, Sea turtles are faced with many predators, where most creatures take sea turtles as their natural prey. But a sea turtle's life can be at risk even before they are even born. When a sea turtle lays her eggs, the eggs are in danger of Terrestrial predators that seek to prey on them. But if an offspring…

In today’s world there are many controversies over what people should drink or eat. One of these are-if people should drink bottled water. It is after all very portable and good in extreme citations. This is a problem though because the bottles are made of plastic which fills our oceans and landfills and takes many years to decompose. Other people say the water is bad for the body, they say the chemicals in the plastic can leach out into the water and ultimately harm you. Lastly most people…

pollution”. It is agree that there are high number of marine animals and birds die from ingesting and choking on plastic for example sea turtle “mistake plastic waste for a viable food source, sometimes causing blockages in their digestive system” or seabirds , she claims that Plastic pollution leads to the deaths of millions of marine bird species each year. Arguably more so than other birds, the Laysan albatross has been deeply impacted by plastic debris through their hunting techniques. When…

Plastic marine debris has become increasingly problematic. Angela Sun, a journalist from California, made a movie called, “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” The movie is about plastic marine debris and how it affects wildlife. Sun heard from a friend about this giant island in the Pacific Ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most people believe that the garbage patch is a very large, solid patch of garbage sitting in the Pacific Ocean. They do not know that the patch…

All living organisms require water to survive, however, with each passing year toxic materials, oils and debris are plaguing our precious oceans, harming marine wildlife, plants, and humans. As this process continue to get bigger these pollutants will play a huge role in the amount of oxygen expelled, water quality and decrease all food sources that are provided by the ocean, having damaging effects on humans and marine wildlife. We all need to be more aware of the influences that we possess in…