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A BBC team has filmed anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir footage of the devastating anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir plastic pollution is having on seabirds in the Tasman Sea, which is between Australia and New Zealand. The film anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir was working on the remote Lord Howe Island for a new wildlife anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir called "Drowning in Plastic". They filmed many birds that had died because their stomachs were anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir too full of plastic to be able to eat any food. The birds starved to anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir because there was no room in their stomachs for food. The documentary team filmed anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir biologists working on the island to try and save the birds. The scientists captured anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir of chicks and physically removed plastic from anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir stomachs to give them a anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir of survival.

Marine biologist Jennifer Lavers explained what was happening to the birds. She said the birds were anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir that will eat anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir. She said: "When you put plastic in the anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir, it means they have no ability to detect plastic from anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir-plastic, so they eat it." Adult birds feed the plastic to their chicks, anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir to what they are feeding them. Professor Lavers lamented that anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir of the plastic is "entirely preventable". She said: "We find plastic clothes pegs and plastic tooth anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir. Those could easily be swapped out for other anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir - aluminium or wood. My anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir toothbrush is made of bamboo." TV presenter Liz Bonnin said: "We saw...90 anythingbrusheschancecrewdeathdisturbingdocumentaryhundredsimpactliterallymarinematerialsmostnonobliviousoceanownpiecespredatorstheir of plastic come out of one of the chicks."