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Plastic in the ocean kills more threatened albatrosses than we thought

By Richelle Butcher, Veterinary Resident at Wildbase, Massey University
Britta Denise Hardesty, Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, CSIRO
Lauren Roman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO

Increasing plastic pollution in southern hemisphere oceans adds a deadly threat to albatrosses, already among the world's most imperiled seabirds with 73% of species threatened with extinction.

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