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The Mermaids´ Tears: Oceans of Plastic

YEAR: 2009 / DURATION: 52 MINS / Production Via Découvertes/Director: Sandrine Feydel/ Versions available: Eng, Fr, Sp

Available in HD

Broadcasts include SVT, VRT, SIC, Odisea, TG4, Inflight Ent, TV Globo, TV3, Pramer, Community Channel, Z1, AVRO, ORF, Press TV, ERT, Al Jazeera, Landmark, RTTV, Creo Content, iChannel, The History Channel Japan, TVNZ, DRS, TVE, Acht, ORF III and Ayat Media

Previous Festival Screening include The Prague Festival, the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2010, Life Sciences Film Festival and the Reykjavik International Film Festival

Awarded ERT 3 broadcasters award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Awarded ’Best Environmental Film’ at the Prague Festival

Nominated for Best Nature and Environment Documentary at the Sichuan TV Festival.

Oceans are rapidly becoming the world’s rubbish dump. Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A ‘plastic soup’ of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaching chemicals slowly up the food chain. In Holland, scientists researching the decline of the fulmar bird found plastic in the stomachs of 95% of all samples; In Germany, chemicals leached from plastic have been found to affect the reproductive systems of animals, while in California, conservationists are seeing increasing numbers of whales and dolphins die agonising deaths, their guts blocked with rubbish. What will be the long term impact of this ’plastic pollution’? Can anything be done to clean up our oceans?

Politics and Current Affairs, Wildlife, All Documentaries, Environment, HD //
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