Discarded plastic blights Honduran mangrove island

Isla De Los Pajaros, Honduras (AFP) Aug 4, 2023

A heron chick flutters clumsily after hatching in a nest on a mangrove island littered with plastic waste in the Gulf of Fonseca, along the Pacific Coast of Central America. The air fills with shrieks of other seabirds also nesting on Los Pajaros Island, in the San Lorenzo Wildlife Reserve, set amid turquoise waters shared by Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Thousands of herons, gull