By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village, he already knew how the young whale had died.
By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village on Saturday, the young Cuvier's beaked whale was already floating, dead in the water, its eyes sunken and ribs protruding through its skin. The current off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao had washed away the blood it vomited before its death.40 kilograms of plastic bags were found inside a whale found dead in the Philippines.
Lindsay Mosher, Oceanic Society's Blue Habits project manager, said in an email that "this whale's tragic death by plastic is an important wake-up call to the fact that we can and must do more to stop ocean plastic pollution". National Geographic reported that more than 30 whales with plastic debris in their bellies washed up on European beaches in 2016. Since then, plastic trash has been discovered increasingly in the stomachs of dead seabirds and whales.
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