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MUNICIPALITIES DUMPING WASTE
DIRECTLY INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
WHAT IS THE POINT ON DUMPING GARBAGE INTO THE OCEAN AND SENDING A CREW TO PICK UP THE TRASH RETURNED BY THE TIDE
APROX 13 HUMPBACK WHALES DIE AYEAR IN LAMBAYEQUE REGION BECAUSE OF THIS........
DO I NEED TO SAY MORE ?
DUMP TRUCKS DUMPING TRASH INTO THE OCEAN
INSTEAD OF THE LOCAL GARBAGE DUMPING FACILITY
approx. 10 HUMPBACK WHALES FOUND DEAD a year IN PERUVIAN SHORES and THE CORPS WHERE RAPIDELLY DISPOSED from the region Lambayeque AMAJOR ECO-DISSASTER
Chiclayo: Necropsia a ballena jorobada se extendió por más de 4 horas| RPP
Lambayeque: Realizan necropsia a ballena varada en playa de Santa Rosa| RPP
Thirteen
whales were killed in recent years in the Lambayeque region
Lots whales
were killed in recent years in the Lambayeque region approx. ten each year
El Imarpe (Peru’s
oceanography Institute and regulatory commission), Jaime de la Cruz, zonal coordinator
said it is likely to be the region Lambayeque where was made the highest number
of deaths of whales 13 in recent years. Beach home owners and surfers
interviewed and local fishermen said they seen about 23 in less than 5 years.
Most people complained about the foul smell and scientists confirm than most of
the deaths were attributed to plastic and waste disposal in the pacific coast
line of Lambayeque. Paco Burga a local surfer who also is aware of the problem
tells the source that he sees the Municipal dump trucks all the time dumping
the loads of garbage constantly in the beach next to his home in Huanchaco.
Chiclayo:
Humpback Whale Necropsy to spread over 4 hours Lambayeque: this year due to
pressure from the ecofriendly NGO’s and news coverage some local official from
IMARPE had to perform necropsy on beached whale Santa Rosa Beach
A total of
13 whales died and beached on the banks to beaches in Lambayeque, for the past
10 years, they said, and probably the region that made the largest number of
records of this type , said the zonal coordinator of the Instituto del Mar del
Peru ( Imarpe ) , Jaime De La Cruz Galloso . Moreover about 10 people where
locally interviewed whom asked their names not to be mentioned in this report
because they fear the local authorities will harm them, or for security reasons
said there where almost twice more and the cause of it every one knows it is
because tons garbage is disposed daily in the ocean, and there is a massive
cover up by the local government because they are in cahoots with the dumping
payola or “cutra” as they called localy by corrupted authorities who love that easy
money that the Municipality officials get by no having the garbage disposed in
a regular dumpsters and ignore the ecological waste treatment way, truckers
dump it in the ocean and the officials pocket the money from the illegal trips
to “the Playa”
He
explained that in 2003 ten whales were found in the El Gigante de la Caleta San
Jose , one north of the beach Naylamp in Lambayeque , in 2011 and one in the
industry recently Salinas Santa Rosa district .
He said
that six were buried a few meters from the areas where they were found by fishermen,
but weather conditions at the time, prevented the remaining seven the same fate.
He noted
that studies were conducted at twelve of the bodies, failed to determine the
specific causes of death. However, to date it is expected the results of the
studies performed in Lima to the whale that perished on 10 July.
Imarpe the
official also left open the possibility of allowing universities to dust off
the skeletons of cetaceans to conduct the studies they deem relevant. We see
this is a constant problem and for the silent mode the authorities keep it as a
under the rug kind of wish washy skeem already a custom and “normal” ways in
the Municipal corruptions all over the country constantly their dumping is made
to rivers and the coast line a major ecological disaster that has to stop.
Gray whale dies bringing us a message — with stomach full of plastic trash
Image Credit: Geograph / Richard Humphrey
By: Brian,
July 29, 2013, a sperm whale was stranded on Tershelling, a northern island in the Netherlands. A rescue attempt was attempted, but unfortunately the whale died. A young adult at 13.5 meters was taken for a necropsy at the port of Harlington. The sperm whale had plastic in its stomach, an increasing common phenomenon say researchers at the Biodiversity Centre Naturalis. In March of this year, a 10 meter long sperm whale washed up on Spain’s South Coast. This whale had swallowed 59 different plastic items totaling over 37 pounds. Most of this plastic consisted of transparent sheeting used to build greenhouses in Almeria and Grenada for the purpose of tomatoes for the European market. The rest was plastic bags, nine meters of rope, two stretches of hosepipe, two small flower pots, and a plastic spray canister. Cause of death was intestinal blockage.
These are not uncommon incidents. In 1989, a stranded sperm whale in the Lavezzi Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea died of a stomach obstruction after accidentally ingesting plastic bags and 100 feet of plastic sheeting. In 1990, a sperm whale examined for pathology in Iceland died of an obstruction of the gut with plastic marine debris. In August of 2008, a sperm whale washed up in Point Reyes, California with 450 pounds of fishing net, rope, and plastic bags in its stomach. The California Marine Mammal Stranding Database tells of another sperm whale stranded in 2008 with stomach contents that included an extensive amount of netting from discarded fishing gear.
The sperm whale that stranded in the Netherlands had a large part of its lower jaw missing. Among hundreds of thousands of sperm whales that whalers harpoon, regularly encountered are sperm whales with broken or deformed lower jaws. Most of these whales have full stomachs and are healthy right before being slaughtered. This, and the fact squids are found in their stomachs whole and seldom show bite marks, lead to a theory that the lower jaw plays no significant role in catching of prey and that these sperm whales instead suck their food in. If this theory is true, sperm whales are just as vulnerable as baleen whales to the ingestion of marine debris.
Another family of deep diving, squid eating cetaceans is the beaked whales. May 2011, a female juvenile Gervais’ beaked whale was found on a beach in Puerto Rico with ten pounds of plastic in her stomach. In July 2006, a 20-year old female Cuvier’s beaked whale died in the Cook Islands, Rarotonga after ingesting a single plastic bag. Sperm whales and beaked whales are especially susceptible to swallowing plastic and fishing gear as they resemble their natural prey, squid, the same way a sea turtle is susceptible to swallowing plastic bags because they resemble jelly fish.
Inside the whale’s unusually bloated stomach, they find 100 plastic bags.
Baleen whales suffer the same fate, not for the fact trash resembles their food, but because they gulp large amounts of water when feeding. In August 2000, a Bryde’s whale was stranded near Cairns, Australia. The stomach was found to be tightly packed with six square meters of plastic rubbish, including supermarket bags, food packages, and fragments of trash bags. In April 2010, a gray whale that died after stranding itself on a west Seattle beach was found to have more than 20 plastic bags, small towels, surgical gloves, plastic pieces, duct tape, a pair of sweat pants, and a golf ball, not to mention other garbage contained in its stomach. Plastic is not digestible, and once it finds its way into the intestines, accumulates and clogs the intestines. For some whales, the plastic does not kill the animal directly, but cause malnutrition and disease, which leads to unnecessary suffering until death.
Whales are not the only victims to our trash. It is estimated that over one million birds and 100,000 marine mammals die each year from plastic debris. In September 2009, photographs of albatross chicks on Midway Atoll were brought to the public’s eye. These nesting chicks were fed bellies full of plastic by their parents who soar over vastly polluted oceans collecting what looks to them to be food. This diet of human trash kills tens of thousands of albatross chicks each year on Midway because of starvation, toxicity, and choking. We can all do our part by limiting our use of plastic products such as shopping bags, party balloons, straws, and plastic bottles. Be a frugal shopper and recycle!
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This article first appeared on Live Free Live Natural.
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