80 plastic bags in the stomach. A pilot whale is the latest victim of marine pollution that kills thousands of animals every year. The cetacean was found dying off the southern coast of Thailand.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him80 plastic bags in the stomach. It is a pilot whale, or pilot whale, the latest victim of marine pollution that kills thousands of animals every year. The cetacean was found dying off the southern coast of Thailand.
Just a few weeks ago the same fate was met in the Spanish coasts to a sperm whale found with 30 kilograms of garbage in its stomach. Now the whale's autopsy has revealed that death was caused by ingesting 8 kilograms of plastic material.
All rescue attempts by veterinarians were useless because the amount of plastic was such as to prevent the whale from feeding.
"If you have 80 plastic bags in your stomach, you die," he explains on Facebook Thon Thamrongnawasawat the marine biologist from Kasetsart University who posted the news on his page.
The images are disconcerting: on the ground there are dozens of black bags, those found in the stomach of the pilot whale which, as we know, is not the only victim of plastic.
According to a study entitled "The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics", carried out by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, by 2050 we will have more plastic than fish in the sea. But given what is happening unfortunately means that all this is not just a catastrophic vision.
According to the biologist, next to the whale there are dolphins, turtles and birds: at least 300 marine animals die every year from plastic.
“It's a huge problem, we use a lot of plastic,” concludes the biologist.
We noticed it too, that's why we launched #svestilafrutta the social campaign against the abuse of plastic packaging. There is now an obsession with packing everything, with excessively protecting fruit and vegetables, even organic ones. In the face of all this, we cannot remain immobile, because the future of our planet also depends on what we buy at the supermarket.
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