Harrowing footage shows how 40kg of plastic pollution was found inside a whale's stomach. “What was unusual in this case was the sheer volume,” a local … According to the BBC, the garbage contained fishing nets, ropes, plastic bags and plastic utensils. HORRIFYING images show a young sperm whale washed up dead on a beach with a stomach full of plastic bags. A dead whale was found in the Philippines on Saturday with 88 pounds of plastic bags and other disposable plastic products in its stomach. The whale was male and not quite fully grown. Comments are welcome while open. Earlier this year, a Cuvier's beaked whale was found in the Philippines with 40 kilograms of "hard, calcified plastic garbage" in its stomach. The animal was too big to be moved, so it was buried on-site. The final cause of death is in for the death of the juvenile male curvier beaked whale we recovered March 16 2019. The grim discovery was the second whale to wash ashore with a stomach full of plastic in recent months. 40... "I was not prepared for the amount of plastic," the museum's founder and president, Darrell Blatchley, told broadcaster CNN. Read about our approach to external linking. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. However, it had been dead for more than two days by the time a team from the group arrived to do a necropsy. A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 6kg (13 lbs) of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials say. 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In a Facebook post, the museum said the animal was filled with "the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale". A sperm whale that stranded and then died on a beach in Scotland had 100 kilograms of plastic in its stomach, including nets, cups, bags and other trash. Environmentalists have warned that whales … .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}A dead whale that washed up in the Philippines had 40kg (88lbs) of plastic bags inside its stomach, researchers have said. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. The sperm whale washed up on a Scottish beach with a stomach full of rope, netting and plastic. In June last year, a pilot whale died in Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags. Add some “good” to your morning and evening. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. It was the most plastic experts at the center have ever found in the stomach of a whale … And earlier in 2018, a pilot whale that died in Thailand was found to have swallowed 80 plastic bags and other plastic items, in all weighing eight kilograms. Experts are sounding the alarm after a young sperm whalewas found dead on a beach in Italy with its stomach full of plastic. Yet another whale carcass has washed up with a stomach full of plastic. S cientists in Norway found more than 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste inside the stomach of a whale stranded off the coast. 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Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. A pregnant sperm whale found dead on an island in Italy carried nearly 50 pounds of plastic in her stomach, the nation's environment minister and a marine life nonprofit said. This young male sperm whale stranded on a beach in Scotland Thursday and later died. An autopsy carried out on Thursday on a beached whale, which was found on the island of Sotra near Bergen last weekend, showed it had 30 plastic bags in its stomach as well as other plastic … "It was so big, the plastic was beginning calcification.". The use of throwaway plastic is a particular problem in some South East Asian countries, including the Philippines. A dead whale has been found washed up with six stone of plastic bags in its stomach in a shocking indictment of the state of our seas. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. The plastic debris weighed 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms). A dead sperm whale has washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia with a stomach full of plastic bottles, plastic bags, flip-flops, fishing ropes, and other plastic trash. That's quite a bit more than the average human mass of 62 kilograms. "This amount of plastic in the stomach is nonetheless horrific, must have compromised digestion, and serves to demonstrate, yet again, the hazards that marine litter and lost or discarded fishing gear can cause to marine life.". The world's oceans now contain an estimated 100 million tonnes of plastic, about 80 to 90 per cent of it from land-based sources, reports the United Nations Environment Programme. A sperm whale found in Indonesia last year had 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, 2 flip-flops, a nylon sack and more than 1,000 other assorted pieces of plastic in its stomach — totalling six kilograms. This dead whale that washed up in the Philippines had 40kg of plastic in its stomach, including multiple rice sacks and grocery bags. Five Asian nations - China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand - accounted for up to 60% of the plastic waste that ends up in oceans, according to a 2015 report by environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. “A stark reminder of what plastic pollution does to our marine friends,” Greenpeace Philippines writes on their Facebook page about the great whale. In May, 180 countries around the world reached a deal that aims to sharply reduce the amount of plastic that gets washed into the world's oceans. Its death came shortly after a report for the UK government revealed the level of plastic in the ocean could triple in a decade unless steps are taken to curb litter. Researchers in Norway were in for a shock when they discovered more than 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste inside the stomach of a whale. The whale was recovered on Saturday. © 2020 BBC. A dead whale that washed up in the Philippines had 40kg (88lbs) of plastic bags inside its stomach, researchers have said. 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The sperm whale's stomach contained two flip-flop sandals, a tangle of plastic ropes, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags and 115 plastic cups. It was still alive when it stranded on the sandbanks of Luskentyre Beach on the Isle of Harris in northern Scotland Thursday. This time, it was a pregnant female sperm whale with 49 lbs. "Whilst it is certainly plausible that this amount of debris was a factor in its live stranding, we actually couldn't find evidence that this had impacted or obstructed the intestines," the group wrote. The museum will post a full list of the items found in the whale over the next few days. Workers at D'Bone Collector Museum recovered the Cuvier's beaked whale east of Davao City earlier in March. In the intestine of the animal, a 100-pound “plastic garbage ball” was found. When the necropsy was performed, Blatchley told NPR, he was not prepared for the amount of plastic they found in the whale's stomach. However, it noted that the animal didn't appear to be in bad shape. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. 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(22 kilograms) of plastic in her stomach. The whale, discovered by locals on the Isle of Harris was found to have a … The group posted a dramatic video of intestines exploding from the animal's abdomen after a knife was inserted, due to a buildup of gases in the abdomen during decomposition. A sperm whale has been found dead on a Scottish beach with a stomach full of plastic, knotted into a lethal ball. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. It was found to have 100 kilograms of plastic in its stomach. .css-1xgx53b-Link{font-family:ReithSans,Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:700;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;color:#FFFFFF;}.css-1xgx53b-Link:hover,.css-1xgx53b-Link:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}Read about our approach to external linking. A dead sperm whale washed up on the beach of popular tourist destination Cefalu, Italy, with a stomach full of plastic. A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Plastic pollution of the seas is increasingly threatening marine mammals A sperm whale did and stranded on the Scottish Isle of Harris. There were 16 rice sacks in its stomach, as well as "multiple shopping bags". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "All this material was in a huge ball in the stomach, and some of it looked like it had been there for some time," said the group, funded by the Scottish and U.K. governments to track marine animal strandings on Scottish coastlines. In May, the carcass of the young sperm whale, estimated to have been 7 years old, was found on a beach in Cefalù, Italy with a stomach full of plastic. A young whale whose carcass washed up in the Philippines died of "dehydration and starvation" after consuming 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of plastic bags, scientists have found. Yet another whale has turned up dead with a stomach full of plastic waste. 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