据联合国估计,全球海洋中大约有51万亿个塑料微粒,是银河系中恒星数量的500倍。
The widespread presence of plastic in our waters meant that it was a problem for arrow worms, said Emily Baxter, senior marine conservation officer for the North West Wildlife Trusts.
英国西北野生动物基金会的资深水生动物保护负责人艾米丽•巴克斯特说,海水中存在的大量塑料对箭虫是个大麻烦。
"They play a really important ecological role in the marine food web. They are voracious predators of other planktonic animals and also represent an important food source for fish, squid and other things that eat plankton."
“箭虫在海洋食物链中起着非常重要的生态作用,它们吃其他的浮游生物,同时也是鱼类、乌贼和其他生物的重要食物 "Even if we stopped producing plastic today this problem is going to continue for a long time. We see it now coming into the bottom of the food chain and potentially affecting the food chain all the way up," she said.
“即使我们现在就停止生产塑料,问题仍然会持续很久。我们看到,塑料已经进入生物链底层,可能将影响其上的整条食物链。”
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