He had 40 pounds of plastic in his stomach, an amount never before seen in a whale. The great cetacean died suffocated by waste in the waters east of Davao City and the fault lies with marine pollution.
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He had 40 pounds of plastic in his stomach, an amount never before seen in a whale. The great cetacean died suffocated by waste in the waters east of Davao City and the fault lies with marine pollution.
The whale had been recovered by researchers at the D'Bone Collector Museum who today made public the results of the autopsy on the carcass. The animal would have died from the amount of plastic ingested and probably mistaken for food. We talk about 40 kilos of waste representing 'a number never before seen in a whale'.
In the stomach of Cuvier's beaked whale there were also 16 bags used to pack rice and numerous shopping bags. In a post on Facebook, the researchers showing the dramatic images, explain that in the next few days they will publish the list of everything that was found in the poor animal's body. Photos so harsh that we decided not to include in the article, leaving you the choice whether or not to display them in the post of the Museum:
The team admits that they have never been faced with such a quantity: the plastic was so much that it was starting calcification inside the stomach. As we know, pollution has now reached very high levels, in the Philippines there are real islands of plastic.
According to the data, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand produce 60% of the world's waste. To pay the costs is biodiversity and animals. Not a day goes by that we document deaths like this. Whales, sperm whales, dolphins are the affected victims because they often mistake plastic for food.
Each of us can stop this destruction by using or eliminating plastic products whenever possible and avoiding disposables. The future of the planet also depends on our daily choices.
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Dominella Trunfio
