Sea Save Foundation
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Marine Litter - Affects over 1,220 Species
A new marine litter database from the Alfred Wegener Institute is called the AWI Litterbase. It is made up from all available scientific data on marine litter and includes the distribution of litter and organisms’ interaction with it using global maps. The number of species that are affected is 1,220. Thirty-four percent of monitored species (including seabirds and fish) ingest litter, thirty-one percent colonize it and thirty percent become entangled in it.
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A new marine litter database from the Alfred Wegener Institute is called the AWI Litterbase. It is made up from all available scientific data on marine litter and includes the distribution of litter and organisms’ interaction with it using global maps. The number of species that are affected is 1,220. Thirty-four percent of monitored species (including seabirds and fish) ingest litter, thirty-one percent colonize it and thirty percent become entangled in it.
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