From Canada, the United States or Greenland: the alarming journey to the Canary Islands of marine garbage

The pollution does not understand of borders, they travel by land and water distances of thousands of kilometers appearing in points very far from where they were discarded, with a clear example in marine garbage.Canaries could be a clear example of this traveling marine garbage that runs on its coasts after transiting through the Atlantic Ocean from unsuspected points such as Canada, the United States, Mexico or Greenland.In this context, the o…

These remains are dragged into the archipelago by the Gulf current, and join many others from the interior territory of the islands. SEO/BirdLife, in collaboration with local entities such as Papacría, Oceans4Life, La Foresta or Club Fronsub, collects and analyzes the garbage that arrives at the Biosphere Reserves of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and the Chinijo, La Palma and El Hierro archipelago, through the RBMar project. SEO/BirdLife develops a pi…