already a number of awareness campaigns about the dangers of plastic for marine ecology, mainly due to a number of marine animals unknowingly ingesting plastic bags that float up to the sea.
Dangers of plastic objects revealed again after a number of objects found in the human waste in the carcass 13 sperm whales.
Quoted from the Telegraph , objects discarded plastic man in the sea are often found its way into the mouth and stomach marine creatures.
Examination of dead animals stranded marine mammals near the city Toenning Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, revealed that their stomachs full of plastic , including fishing nets along the 13 meter and 70 cm long plastic parts coming from the car.
A man then uploading pictures astonishing findings plastic objects that on Instagram.However, the sperm whale that died not because of the plastic.
Scientists suspect they suffer a heart attack caused by hunger.
"These findings show us about the people who are crazy about plastic," said Robert Habeck, Environment Minister Robert Habeck Schleswig-Holstein.
"The animals are eating is unconscious plastics and plastic waste which they suffer, and, most poor, starving. They feel the stomach is full and unable to eat. "
All the whales are male, aged between 10 and 15 years old, weighing between 32 to 41 tons.Experts suspect the storm in the northeast Atlantic swept whale food sources into the North Sea.
Whales follow their food source and were stranded in shallow waters so starved and finally died.
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| There are a number of plastic objects in the stomach 13 sperm whales die of hunger on the German coast. (Source Christian Charisius via EPA) |
The news circulated after the discovery of the sperm whale carcass 6 diterdampar in Norfolk, England, in February. Six animals died within 2 weeks.
Rob Deaville, project manager for the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), said, "It is time to 29 stranded whales in the North Sea coast. I have never experienced this in the last 20 years. "
"Historically, we've witnessed the mass stranded whales but never this badly over the past decades."
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