Microplastics in wild tapir and anteater blood rise with human land use

Microplastics were present in 43 of 47 wild lowland tapirs and giant anteaters sampled in Brazil, and blood concentrations were higher in animals whose ranges included more human disturbance. The study, published in Nature and led by Dr Marcia de Almeida Monteiro Melo Ferraz of the University of British Columbia (Ke…