DAVAO, Philippines – A juvenile 15-foot whale was found washed ashore in the Philippines with more than 80 pounds of plastic trash inside its body, according to a team at a local natural history museum.
Staff at the D’ Bone Collector Museum picked up the whale from a beach in the southern Philippines and were met with a grisly discovery when they performed the necropsy of the marine mammal. “I was not prepared for the amount of plastic. 40 kilos roughly of rice sacks, grocery bags, banana plantation bags and general plastic bags. Sixteen rice sacks total,” Darrell Blatchley, President and Founder of the D’ Bone Collector Museum in Davao, said. READ MORE
