Albatross Chicks On Midway Atoll

This is one of the saddest sets of photos i’ve seen in a long time, I’m sad to be a part of the human race. “These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.” posted on October 30, 2009 at 8:56pm EDT