plastic trash bags journey: from fillmore to the pacific ocean
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Meanwhile Shiny Microtrash Falls out of the Trash Bag Into Condor SanctuaryTRANSCRIPT
Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey:From Fillmore to the Pacific Ocean
Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Dropped by a Careless Someone in the
Fillmore Sespe Condor Sanctuary…
And Takes Flight in the Wind…
Meanwhile Shiny Microtrash Falls out of the Trash Bag
Into Condor Sanctuary
Microtrash Gets Ingested by Condors and Can Kill Them
Stomach contents of a 4-month old California Condor chick that died in the nest, June, 2006.Sespe Condor Sanctuary, Los Padres NF
Solutions: Help a Condor- 1. Never Throw Trash
2. Volunteer to Pick Up Microtrash
http://www.habitatwork.org/NativeSpecies.htm
VOLUNTEER @HABITATWORK.ORG
VOLUNTEER @Friends of Condorshttp://www.friendsofcondors.org/
Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Falls in Santa Clara River
The Santa Clara River and Sespe Creek Once Had Plenty of Steelhead Trout
Southern steelhead trout captured near lower Sespe Creek by William A. Brown, winter 1911.
Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Falls in Santa Clara River
Fish ingest small pieces of plastic, mistaking it for food.
Solutions: Help a Steelhead Trout- 1. Never Throw Trash
2. Volunteer to Clean the Riverbed
http://www.fscr.org/html/events.shtml
VOLUNTEER @Friends of Santa Clara River
Congratulations, 8,500 pounds of trash and recyclable material was collected by volunteers.
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2001/2001-34.htm
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