Greenpeace Italia said the carcass of the young animal -- estimated to be seven years old -- washed up on the beach at Cefalu, a popular tourist destination in Sicily, on Friday. Grim images posted on the group's Facebook page show the dead whale lying on the beach, its stomach full of plastic bags and other plastic objects. "As you can see from the images we're sharing, a lot of plastic was found in its stomach," Greenpeace Italia's Giorgia Monti said in a statement.
In another video, Isgro is seen putting the plastic he recovered from the whale's body in a recycling bin."It's impressive. Unbelievable," he says in the video. Isgro told CNN there were"several kilograms worth of plastic" inside the whale's stomach. "The plastic probably created a block that didn't let the food in," he said."That's very likely to be the cause of death. We have not found signs that could indicate another possible reason.
We should educate these Whales on the dangers of consuming plastic
A young sperm whale was found in Porto with a stomach full of Seamen
Homeless population on the rise
Where are we heading?
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What a shame !!
kelsmerritt This post will make a lot of people comment “horrible “ “we need to help them “ “stop using plastic “ but after a few hours or even minutes , it’s all forgotten :)) stop talking start acting
El mundo se nos está yendo a la mierda y lo peor de todo esque nos estamos dando cuenta y nos importa un carajo
its mom shouldve told it not to eat plastic
What a news!!!
Unimaginable how much plastic is in oceans, lakes and rivers after so many tornados, hurricanes, tsunamis etc. But come on people STOP with the plastic use and demand better of all restaurants and fast food locations! Many fast food places dont even have recycling bins!!! WHY
Our practices are endangering our lives as well as the lives of other species.
I really wish these fish would stop eating all our plastic plastictiesmatter
Such a shame...
We need laws that require single use paper and plastic items such as those used by fast food to be made of compostable materials. All drink containers (not just carbonated drinks) must have a deposit and it should be a country wide requirement.
It's an easy solve: use biodegradable materials instead of plastics, use a metal reusable water bottle instead of plastic ones and if you use a plastic water bottle, upcycle them for different things around your house. Same goes for plastic bags. It's not rocket science, guys.
Disposable plastic should be banned world wide. UN ' asleep at switch', instead of focus on 'climate change', do something that can be done: ban production of disposable plastics
Old news retweeted. Someone on vacation or furloughed?
My heart. 😔
Sad
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We have to do better not just for aquatic life but for our own lives.
Now cnn reporting in its wheel house the environment and wildlife
bryanboy My bet is that it ate some plastic clothes, like from new real-fur free, Prada collection 👍 People stop using plastic noplastic nofurban
It truly breaks my heart to see the environment in such poor condition. I promise to make bettering the environment a number one priority in the Oval Office.
Absolutely horrendous and disheartening
💔💔 and ppl still unaware of this
Plastic is awful!!!💔😥
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Im broken heart 😰
Probably came all the way from China. But it's still America's fault. 😂
Terrible. We're killing the planet.
philipi_lopes
Shameful.
Tired of all these Trump tweets.
BAN PLASTIC WORLDWIDE!!!! banplastic
Heartbreaking; when will we learn to take responsibility for our actions
Can your network do better? Can it have more broadcasts depicting our climate crisis? We need you to start doing a decent job.
No. This isn't global warming. He he.
Horrible
Join our No Planet 🌎 B Facebook group to trade ideas on how to reduce plastic AND what you can do in your community! 40% of all plastic made is for SINGLE-USE - that must stop.
心痛，人类究竟要多久才能真正认识自己的过错？🙏💔
poor little bean 😢
I recycle my plastic. This is horrible, I knew as a teen what we were doing was terrible, why has this crap not been banned ?
OMG 😭
😭😭😭 Heartbreaking!
This is so terribly sad. This is the result of humans not caring about anything but themselves.
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Use hemp instead of plastic 🤷♂️
That is so sad. Human race is destroying the planet
Why does this bother people more than abortion?
Plastic has been dominating the oceanic world.
Sorry, don’t believe it.
Can you also explain to me how my plastic straw here in the midwest made it to that whale's belly?
Ok we get it. Too much plastic!
When are we going to realize that the convenience of plastis just isn't worth the cost. Please be careful with it! Please recycle! Got back to paper and glass!
Terrible. We will reap what we have sown soon enough. Nature collapses then so do we.
So sad
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The ocean has tons of trash. This is no surprise. Next....
Let's reduce the use of plastic household by household. I stopped buying bottled water, myself. I use a canteen, refilling it several times a day; and a brita filterd pitcher at home. What will you do?
Oh god is plastic the new racsim for cnn?
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Who named it 'sperm whale'?
Human beings were a mistake.
Poor her.
Right, and as you know, as well as I do, this would have occurred weather or not a republican vs. democrat held US presidential office. Say that. honest
Why are we not fighting against plastic pollution instead of made up Climate Change scams?
Why do you tweet the same articles you posted weeks before? I’ve seen you do it regularly. I read this article weeks ago from CNN with the same caption
We humans are singlehandedly killing this beautiful planet! And by what right! 🐋🐬🐳
We should protect our environment right now.
This is devastating for our wildlife & planet.
Stupid animal. My Shih tzu know senough not to eat plastic
Whats CNN full of
应该爱护我们的环境，不为别人，为爱的人
A young girl of 14 was beaten and chopped up in America by MS13 members... how much cover did give to that?
You have trump to thanks for this....
Bad, bad. The plastic pollution to the ocean must be reduced!
So sad an event. We dump our plastic waste and untreated sewage in the oceans! Not right.
fakenews (sub-category: 'anti-plastic propaganda')
I don’t know why people keep throwing their trash in the ocean.
Should refrain from dumping anything into the ocean. What is useful and convenient for us shouldn't be discarded to kill our ocean animals or mammals. Awful ⚡️
How dare you assume it's gender.
should teach whales not to eat plastic,
So damn heartbreaking. She did not even get a chance at life, and no doubt was in a hell of a lot of pain, all because stupid, stupid, self absorbed humans CHOSE to litter. The most dangerous predator on the planet.
The young mpo ne
Opinion; Let's make a slogan globally 'SAY NO TO PLASTIC' in your daily live to save the Environment and Nature.
Oh and if crooks in local government would stop dumping garbage barges offshore to save a few dollars this issue would not be the issue its become. Of course soon as they start charging us $200 a month for garbage collection nobody would care about plastics in the ocean at all.
This is partly why the world must listen when we preach that plastics are not good for us, animals, water bodies and the environment. We need to start living responsibly. TuveKaveera Rejectplastics greenenergy cleanenergy
Very bad ,we should avoid using plastic , As it causes environmental pollution
Sounds childish
Tsk!!! Maybe this Canadian freaks is dumping their garbage in the sea...
I thought whales were smart. What was it doing eating plastic?
Natural selection
Oh and just so you know I worked for the criminal liars and extortionists known as greenpeace in the 80's, they fabricate ' evidence ' then conduct corporate blackmail to fund their environmental terrorism. They are even bigger liars than CNN.
What constitutes a stomach 'FULL' of plastic on a sperm whale, furthermore, have the conducted an autopsy, was plastic ingestion the cause of death? HIGHLY unlikely but damn sure makes for good outrage huh?
Millions of other species are threatened by the mere presence of humans. 😢
We have to do much better. Clean the earth and work towards reducing overpopulation by birth control.
It’s tragic anytime a fish dies, but especially the young ones.
Go back to the 80's we had paper bags and glass bottles. And we made money returning the bottles. It was awesome for our candy runs : )
start by paying fishing trawlers to collect ocean trash by charging the communities and industries near the coast where the trash was collected. That will get everybodys attention.
Why will a whale eat plastic? Age regardless, are they that dumb to not know plastic isn’t food?
Make sense!
Horrible world 🌍
Another death for the trumpster and his allegiance to business only.
The baby shark tuturuturu is dead 😓
Foolish exs lose in race
No one's going to do anything about this....every single person posting here is going to go back and change nothing in their lives. The ocean is doomed and we are to blame.
Something truly needs to be done.We can start by forbidding world wide any dumping of plastic trash into the sea or stored dump sites near the shores.Forbid all plastic and rubber flip flops on beaches.We must faithfully clean up our plastic n recycle.This is so sad, we must act.
I hate everything and everyone right now...😭😭😭
Good, multiply shitxxxxxxx devils
We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.
😞 guilty as charged
And yet almost all throws plastic everywhere, pollutes with burning coal and oil. Simply doesn't care about nature, wildlife, children, grandchildren or themselves. Hopefully people will wake up very soon and stop poluting. They actually have to. Stop believing lies of the greedy
Not a straw! Let’s ban all plastic!
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Human beings sure are great for the earth aren't they?
Human Selfishness is Endless
Mob hit
What a shame !!!
Recycling more stories? Wow, your staff cuts really have hurt you.
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