A starving whale found dead at the shore of the Philippines on Saturday, because of 40kg plastics including rice sacks, grocery bags, banana plantation bags trash-filled its stomach and the whale was unable to eat.
Calling this incident one of the worst cases of poisoning the activists have seen, one of the largest amounts removed from the stomach of a marine mammal.
The environmental group had a necropsy on the whale and it is found that the whale died from ingesting plastic.
Philippines have tagged as one of the world’s biggest ocean polluters due to its reliance on single-use plastic by the Environmental groups.
“The juvenile male Cuvier’s beaked whale was found showing signs of being emaciated and dehydration and had been vomiting blood before it died,” said Darrell Blatchley, marine biologist and environmentalist.
“I was not prepared for the amount of plastic,” Blatchley added “Roughly 40 kilos of rice sacks, grocery bags, banana plantation bags and general plastic bags. Sixteen rice sacks in total.”
There were so many plastic bags in the animal’s stomach that some had begun to calcify.
“It’s disgusting. Action must be taken by the government against those who continue to treat the waterways and ocean as dumpsters,” the museum posted.
Activists have criticised the President Rodrigo Duterte-led administration of lax implementation of its garbage disposal laws.
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