Assortment of hundreds of plastic bags and half a dozen of polypropylene bags, weighing about 40 kg, were found in the stomach of a whale, whose body was found in mabini in Compostela valley (Philippines) Saturday, 16 March, writes CNN.
Plasty znovu zabíjely. Na Filipínách našli v žaludku uhynulé velryby 40 kilogramů plastů. Kvůli rýžovým sáčkům, obalům od banánů a plastovým pytlům v těle nemohlo zvíře přijímat vodu ani potravu a zemřelo na dehydrataci.
Foto: Darrell Blatchley pic.twitter.com/lzlW02hdKG
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The whale died a painful death from «dehydration and prolonged fasting» due to ingestion of plastic, as plastic crowded stomach, he stopped receiving nutrients and enough water from food. According to marine biologist and environmentalist Durrell, Blatchly, mammal «vomited blood before he died.»
«I wasn’t ready for this amount of plastic,» said, Blatchly.
He noted that in the whale’s stomach had so many plastic bags that they began to calzinirovnie.
Darrel Blatchley, founder of the D Bone Collector Museum, talks about the 40 kilos of plastic trash recovered from a dead whale’s stomach in Brgy. Cadunan, Mabini, Compostela Valley | via @HernelTocmo pic.twitter.com/hHTTO4XyT4
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The staff of the Museum of natural history in the Philippine city of Davao, founded by Blatchly, stated that the contents of the stomach of the whale was the worst thing they have ever found in other mammals and fish. The Museum called on governments to take action against those who «continues to view the oceans as trash cans».
‘This whale had the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale,’ says American biologist is Darrell Blatchley. #ScienceNature https://t.co/nKIug8Sui4
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The representative of the charitable organization World Animal Protection Peter Kempl hardy called the incident «a tragic reminder» of the need «to work together to achieve global solutions» to prevent pollution of the environment with plastic.
«Hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die each year from plastic pollution in the ocean, including plastic products single use and plastic fishing gear thrown into water bodies,» — said the expert.
Senior marine scientist at Humane Society International, mark Simmonds said that the latest incident further underscores the «fierce global crisis, which is a marine debris for wildlife». He warned that the crisis is often «out of sight and out of mind», except when such animals reveal and explore.
«We need to intensify efforts worldwide to reduce ocean pollution plastic, otherwise this tragedy could become much more common in the future,» he concluded.
