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Ben See
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Seven reasons birds are dying:

1. Starvation
2. Starvation
3. Starvation
4. Starvation
5. Starvation
6. Starvation
7. Starvation

[THREAD]
Tens of thousands of dead birds are washing up on the beaches of Alaska's Prince William Sound, an unexplained mass die-off that some experts say may be related to the changing climate.

The birds appear to have starved to death smh.com.au/environment/co…
Penguins starving to death is a sign that something’s very wrong in the Antarctic.

Overfishing, oil drilling, pollution and climate change are imperilling the ecosystem.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Seabirds are starving to death:

"the scientists were telling us they sometimes pull out 200 or 250 pieces of plastic out of dead birds... It's obscene when you think about it."

bbc.com/news/science-e…
A grim picture of starvation

Global warming only makes it more likely we'll see more of these kinds of events in the future.

sciencealert.com/the-climate-cr…
Industrial fisheries are starving seabirds like penguins and terns by competing for the same prey sources. Seabirds are now the most threatened bird group.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/…
'If you lose 80% of what you eat you cannot sustain a stable population.'
theguardian.com/environment/20…
"All the birds show signs of severe starvation and we don't know why," said Leopold.

"there is something wrong at sea, and that's alarming."
m.phys.org/news/2019-02-d…
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Ben See
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Remember:

1. Seabirds are starving.
2. Frogs can't survive.
3. Sharks are being wiped out.
4. Orangutans face annihilation.
5. Butterflies are vanishing.
6. Whales are committing suicide.
7. Fish are disappearing
8. Bees are critically endangered.

THERE IS NO BIGGER NEWS STORY.
It's never too late to act on Ecological Collapse, Climate Breakdown & the 6th Mass Extinction (all caused by destructive capitalism). But how can we know we must act on this catastrophe when state-corporate media & education systems don't inform us?
See:👇
All species are now Critically Endangered as we head rapidly into a hostile climate. Humans, animals, trees, plants will struggle to survive.

⚠️2°C average global temp. rise by the 2030s?⚠️

Also: overfishing, pesticides, deforestation, poaching, hunting👇
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
You do realise that they're wiping out all the frogs now, don't you?

1. Frog experiments have spread a deadly fungus.

2. Climate breakdown accelerating too fast for frogs to survive.

3. Frogs vanishing in 6th mass extinction.

It's simply a Global Extermination of amphibians.
A deadly fungus, Batrachocytrium dendrobatidis, 'has been known to decimate entire populations of frogs' . Humans bring it wherever they encounter frogs — 'either accidentally, or when we take them in as pets, use them as food or in laboratory experiments.'animals.howstuffworks.com/endangered-spe…
Catastrophic and ongoing destruction of amphibians around the world:

'Globalization has opened a Pandora’s box of invasive species and diseases, and climate change is adding further stress.'

earther.gizmodo.com/alarming-study…
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Ben See
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The killing of 6 billion birds per year:

5.5 billion: cats & buildings
52 million: EU legal hunting
40 million: US industry
36 million: EU & Med. poachers
2.6 million: harvesting tractors Spain
etc

And 95% of the world's seabirds will die having ingested plastic by 2050.
Domestic cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 and 20.7 billion mammals (mostly mice, shrews, rabbits, squirrels, and voles) each year.

businessinsider.fr/us/cats-kill-b…
'Scientists estimate an astounding upper-level figure of 1 billion birds that die in the U.S. each year from building collisions. Making matters worse, 40 percent of the world’s bird species are already in decline.' truthout.org/articles/build…
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