Dead Whale in Indonesia with 1000 Swallowed Plastic

As a reminder of the dangers of pollution in our oceans, a 31.17-foot sperm whale was found with six kilograms of trash of plastic waste near Kapota Island in Wakatobi National Park, southeast of Sulawesi.

Park officials found bags, plastic bottles, sandals and 115 plastic cups in the whale's stomach, as well as a sack containing more than 1,000 pieces of string.

Researchers measuring the whale.

The discovery was made in a popular tourist hot-spot and comes at a time where the concern of marine life are at a worrying state.

A 2015 report by Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment found that over 50% of the plastic leaking into world oceans comes from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, suggesting that the two whales died in dangerous waters for marine life.

Without intervention, the amount of plastic cluttering the Earth's oceans will triple within a decade, according to a recent study by the UK government.