Photographer Chris Jordan has documented the plight of of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, thousands and thousands of kilometres from the nearest continent.

To quote the statement: These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. The full gallery of images is here.

These have been on vivid in my mind for a week or so ever since I first came across them.