{"id":197,"date":"2021-04-13T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2022-04-10T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T17:20:46","slug":"covid-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Covid trash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1022\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RobinEntangledInMask-PhotoBySandraDenisuk.jpg\" alt=\"Robin entangled in surgical mask\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RobinEntangledInMask-PhotoBySandraDenisuk.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RobinEntangledInMask-PhotoBySandraDenisuk-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RobinEntangledInMask-PhotoBySandraDenisuk-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>This Canadian robin was found entangled in one of the billions of blue surgical masks used and discarded during the Covid-19 pandemic.\nSandra Denisuk, A.-F. Hiemstra et al\/Animal Biology 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well the list of covid related problems just keeps growing.  Researchers in the Netherlands have been documenting a lot of wildlife which are being killed by discarded masks and latex gloves.  They are also inviting individuals from all over the world to post their own observations of wildlife that has been affected by covid waste.  (Negatively or positively &#8211; many animals are dying while some birds have been using masks and gloves in nest building.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find their website, see the results, and make your own report here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.covidlitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.covidlitter.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A story about it in Science News can be found here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/coronavirus-covid-ppe-trash-masks-gloves-pollution-deadly-wildlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Science News Covid Trash Article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our volunteers are very diligent about picking up trash as well as fishing line.  While a mask is dangerous until we find it, we usually find and remove them pretty quickly, thus reducing the danger.  So far we have not found any wildlife entangled in covid litter at Lake Hodges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to help us &#8211; at Lake Hodges or at your own local fishing area &#8211; please <a href=\"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/?page_id=68\">contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the list of covid related problems just keeps growing. Researchers in the Netherlands have been documenting a lot of wildlife which are being killed by discarded masks and latex gloves. They are also inviting individuals from all over the world to post their own observations of wildlife that has been affected by covid waste. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Covid trash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayakingforthebirds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}