Murcian authorities pledge to clean up coast after whale dies with stomach full of plastic

Authorities in Murcia, have launched a campaign to clean up its beaches, after a sperm whale was washed up onto one of it’s beaches with its stomach full of plastic.

An autopsy on the 10-metre-long juvenile whale was performed after it was found near a lighthouse in February. Twenty-nine kilograms of rubbish including plastic bags, sacks of raffia straw, ropes, nets and a drum were uncovered from the whale’s digestive tract by the local El Valle Wildlife Recovery Centre.

The whale would have been unable to digest or excrete the rubbish, experts said, resulting in its death.

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