Sperm whale bodies were found on the coast of Indonesia full of plastic trash

2018-11-28 「 1488 words / 3 minute 」
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印度尼西亚一座国家公园的管理者们表示,他们在一只被冲上岸、已经死去的抹香鲸的胃里,发现有近6公斤(13磅)的塑料垃圾。
A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 6kg (13 lbs) of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials say.
这些垃圾包括115个饮水杯、4个塑料瓶、25个塑料袋和两只人字拖。
Items found included 115 drinking cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags and two flip-flops.
上周一较晚时候,在瓦卡托比国家公园的卡波塔岛附近水域,管理者们发现了一头9.5米(31英尺)长的哺乳动物的尸体。
The carcass of the 9.5m (31ft) mammal was found in waters near Kapota Island in the Wakatobi National Park late last Monday.
美联社援引世界自然基金会印尼区海洋物种保护协调员Dwi Suprapti的话称:“虽然我们无法推断这只鲸鱼的死亡原因,但我们看到的事实确实非常糟糕。”
"Although we have not been able to deduce the cause of death, the facts that we see are truly awful," Dwi Suprapti, a marine species conservation co-ordinator at WWF Indonesia, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
她补充称,很难说塑料是否是鲸鱼死亡的诱因,因为尸体被发现时就已经很腐烂了。
It was not possible to say whether the plastic had caused the whale's death because of its advanced state of decay, she added.
在包括印度尼西亚在内的一些东南亚国家,一次性塑料的使用是一个很严重的问题。
The use of throwaway plastic is a particular problem in some South East Asian countries, including Indonesia.
根据环境保护组织海洋守护者协会和麦肯锡商业与环境中心2015年的一份报告,五个亚洲国家--中国,印度尼西亚,菲律宾,越南和泰国--制造了全球60%的海洋塑料废物。
Five Asian nations -- China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand -- account for up to 60% of the plastic waste that ends up in oceans, according to a 2015 report by environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment.