Kia ora Jon,
The bird in this picture is called a toroa - or native Royal Albatross - and is only a few years old.
These birds can live to be sixty years old - but sadly, this one didn’t get the chance. He was found on a beach in Napier struggling in the surf. Vets tried desperately to save him, but it was too late. He passed away a few days later, killed by a 500ml plastic bottle found in his stomach.
Today is World Albatross Day, and we’d like to use this opportunity to shine a light on the plight of these amazing animals so we can better protect them. Single-use plastic bottles are one of the most commonly-found types of plastic polluting our oceans. We need to ban them, stopping them at the source and giving animals like this albatross a chance.
We’ve made a video to tell the story of this poor toroa and show New Zealand why we need a ban on single-use plastic bottles. Please help grow the movement by watching and sharing with your friends.
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New Zealand beverage companies sell around a billion plastic bottles each year. But of all the plastic ever produced in the world, only 9 per cent has been recycled. The rest has accumulated in landfills, been incinerated or ended in the ocean and in the stomachs of animals like this albatross.
Making plastic bottles is cheap, so beverage and packaging companies keep mass producing them at a low price - but at the expense of these precious marine animals.
We desperately need companies to take responsibility for the waste they are creating and switch to reusable and refillable alternatives. It only takes one piece of plastic to kill a marine mammal - so every bottle counts.
In 2018, people like you helped win a ban on single-use plastic bags. This has stopped billions of plastic bags heading into landfill and the ocean each year.
Our voices are powerful! But we need to do more to keep the momentum going. While plastic bottles are still flowing into the ocean, animals like this toroa are still suffering and dying. It must be stopped.
It’s too late for this albatross, but it’s not too late to save other birds like him. Together, we can get a ban on single-use plastic bottles and create a better future for our oceans and wildlife.
Thank you for all that you do.
For a plastic-free future,
Holly and Phil,
Plastics Campaigners
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GREENPEACE AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
11 Akiraho Street, Mount Eden, Auckland , New Zealand
0800 22 33 44 | info@greenpeace.org.nz | greenpeace.org/new-zealand/
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