Discarded COVID-19 PPE such as masks can be deadly to wildlife
Animals around the world are eating or getting entangled in single-use masks and gloves
In perhaps the first documented impact of COVID-19 litter on wildlife, this robin was found entangled in a face mask in Chilliwack, Canada, in April 2020.
Sandra Denisuk, A.-F. Hiemstra et al/Animal Biology 2021