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An Advocate for the Oceans / Amagansett conservationist Carl Safian travels the world to help protect it.

On Midway Atoll, the remote Pacific island where a military complex has

given way to a wildlife refuge, conservationist Carl Safina observes as a

Laysan albatross bends over its chick, opens its tube-shaped bill and begins to

regurgitate a meal.

But the adult struggles with the delivery. It retches. No food comes out.

Then Safina sees why. The plastic tip of a toothbrush...

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