寂静的抗议——因为人类而夭折的信天翁幼雏

Midway
Message from the Gyre

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.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

~cj, October 2009


　　这些信天翁幼雏的照片摄于几周之前，在Midway—一个小小的、狭长的，靠近北太平洋中部的环状珊瑚岛。信天翁父母们给它们尚在巢中待哺的孩子们喂饱了塑料制品，父母们在辽阔的海域中寻找到了那些所谓的“食物”。很显然，这些海域已经被污染，而它们并不知道这些塑料制品并不是有益它们孩子健康的食物。而因为食用这些人类随意抛弃的垃圾，每年在Midway有上万只信天翁幼雏因为过度饥饿、中毒和窒息而夭折。

　　你看到的图片没有经过任何特别处理，没有一块塑料制品被刻意安排或组合。它们真实地向你展示在一个偏远的海洋保护区中，一群还没出巢就已经夭折的信天翁幼鸟的胃里都塞满了什么导致它们死去的东西。也许这事情发生在离陆地仅2000 英里的地方，你不会觉得奇怪，但这可是这个地球上最不起眼的一个小角落！