A young whale was discovered dead with 88 pounds of plastic and calcifying trash in its belly.
Darrell Blatchley, director and founder of D' Bone Collector Museum, shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale in Compostela Valley, Davao, on March 16.
Darrell Blatchley, director and founder of D' Bone Collector Museum, shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale in Compostela Valley, Davao, on March 16. Over the past decade, D’ Bone Collector Museum has recovered 57 whales and dolphins that have died after consuming plastic garbage and fishing nets, of which four were pregnant. Blatchley said the amount inside the young Cuvier’s beaked whale was the “most plastic” he has ever seen in a whale.
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