MANILA: A starving whale with 40kg of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday ...
MANILA: A starving whale with 40kg of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday , calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen.
In the latest case, a Cuvier's beaked whale died on Saturday in the southern province of Compostela Valley where it was stranded a day earlier, the government's regional fisheries bureau said. The agency and an environmental group performed a necropsy on the animal and found about 40kg of plastic, including grocery bags and rice sacks.The animal died from starvation and was unable to eat because of the trash filling its stomach, said Darrell Blatchley, director of D' Bone Collector Museum Inc, which helped conduct the examination."We've done necropsies on 61 dolphins and whales in the last 10 years and this is one of the biggest we've seen.
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