Recently, a female deer died near Nara Park in Japan. After autopsy, it was found that her stomach was stuffed with plastic bags and various foreign bodies, weighing 3.2kg.

The female deer was first found by the public on the 23rd of last month, lying near the Dongtai temple, very weak and unable to stand. The people who found it soon contacted the Nara Deer association to take the female deer back to care, but died the next day.

The deer Association dissected the female deer on the 27th, and found that the stomach of the female deer was full of plastic bags. The veterinarian said that these plastic bags may have been eaten into the stomach a little bit over time, and eventually become a large piece stuffed into the stomach.

3.2kg plastic bags and sundries in the stomach of female deer

Reporters in Nara Park found that many tourists will bring all kinds of plastic packaging products or plastic bags.

Because there is no garbage can in Nara Park, many tourists who come for sightseeing throw garbage at will.

In fact, even if the deer scallops fed to the deer are not packed in plastic, tourists can see the pictures that can be photographed everywhere by putting the deer scallops in plastic bags for convenience.

Moreover, the deer itself does not seem to be able to distinguish which can be eaten and which cannot be eaten, so it is very likely to eat plastic products but not find them.

The deer is gnawing at the map left by the tourists

The litter thrown on the ground everywhere may be eaten by the deer, and there will be no reaction when it is eaten.

However, these plastic garbage can't be digested in the deer's stomach, but will occupy the stomach space. Slowly, the deer will enter a state of malnutrition, and finally die of weakness.

Local volunteers will organize to pick up garbage. The cleaning volunteers say that they can collect a pile of garbage after walking for about 10 minutes

Volunteers feel that it is a basic etiquette to take their garbage back and throw it away, but in Nara Park, which is crowded with tourists, it seems difficult not to throw garbage everywhere.

There are about 1226 deer in Nara Park. No matter how hard cleaning volunteers try to pick up garbage, there is no way to ensure that no deer will eat plastic garbage.

Nara Deer died of eating plastic garbage by mistake, which immediately caused heated discussion among netizens, because it is not the first time that plastic garbage has been found in animals.

Nara Deer died of eating plastic garbage by mistake, which immediately caused heated discussion among netizens, because it is not the first time that plastic garbage has been found in animals. This is too much, as is the pollution of plastic waste in the sea. It is time to control plastic all over the world.

When taking a boat, I accidentally saw plastic bottles and bags floating in the open sea.

These will eventually affect human beings in turn. Although it is late, it is better than not doing it. It is hoped that leaders of all countries will seriously come up with countermeasures.

Indeed, the first time people found that all kinds of plastic garbage had endangered other animals was when many marine animals died on the shore.

When the BBC filmed the documentary 'blue planet II' at sea, it said that during the shooting period, it rarely saw the time when there was no plastic.

Even when diving into the deep sea, you can still see plastic fishing lines. Not to mention on the sea, floating plastic bottles, candy paper, and all kinds of plastic garbage can be seen almost everywhere. No matter how hard you try to salvage it, there seems to be no end.

Plastic garbage floating on the sea has become an inevitable threat to all kinds of marine organisms.

Some animals will eat these plastic garbage by mistake, and these things cannot be digested and decomposed in the body. When they accumulate to a certain extent, they will be life-threatening, just like the Nara Deer above.

As early as 1960, plastic was found in less than 5% of seabirds' stomachs; However, by 1980, this proportion had risen to 80%; What is more terrifying is that no seabird may escape the fate of eating plastic by 2050.

In the documentary 'Blue Planet 2', there is a shocking scene: a giant sperm whale is trying to swallow a blue plastic bucket

At the end of May 2018, a dying sperm whale was found on the beach in southern Thailand. During the treatment, five plastic bags were vomited out in one day, and finally died. After dissection, more than 80 plastic bags were found in the stomach

In November of the same year, a 9.5-meter-long sperm whale was found dead on kapota Island, Indonesia.

There are 115 plastic cups, 25 plastic bags, 4 plastic bottles, 2 plastic slippers and a pile of other plastic garbage in the stomach of this sperm whale.

Before the deaths of the two whales, WWF (World Wide Fund for nature) said that French scientists found 800kg of plastic waste from a stranded whale, and this shocking tragedy obviously did not attract people's attention.

In addition to eating plastic by mistake, all kinds of marine organisms are also trapped by these plastic garbage, and the originally free turtles may be trapped by a pile of plastic.

The straw we threw away appeared in the nostril of the turtle. The staff took 8 minutes to take out the 10 cm straw. The Turtle was in great pain during the whole process, and the nostrils were bleeding.

A seal was caught by a plastic packing ring and finally starved to death on the shore.

On the earth where we live, plastic garbage is everywhere. Plastic particles are found in all oceans, land and even the deepest place on earth, the Mariana Trench.

There are about 51trillion plastic particles in the world's oceans, and these plastic particles have entered the entire food chain, and human beings are not immune.

People who love seafood have unconsciously swallowed plastic particles into it.

Scientists examined 15-20 grams of meat from three mussels and two oysters, and found that each gram contained an average of 0.42 plastic particles.

So, how many plastic particles may there be in a person who loves seafood? The researchers took a group of people who love eating seafood as samples. These people eat 73.9g seafood meat every day, which is almost 27kg a year. If this number is multiplied by 0.42 plastics per gram above, the total is 11000 plastics.

雖However, these plastic particles are very small. If 11000 particles are connected into a line, the length is about 11cm, but it's also chilling to think of an 11cm plastic in the body.

What's more, the above research was done in 2004, and it has been 15 years since then.

According to a UN report, only 9% of the 9billion plastic products produced in the world are recycled.

Most plastic waste is either buried in the soil or discarded in the sea.

And these plastic waste, whether in soil or water, is difficult to degrade, which means that it will exist in our living environment in the form of solid waste for a long time.

Unconsciously, we have been living in a huge 'garbage dump'.

If 'save those animals' is not painful or itchy, now it seems that it is time to save ourselves.

*News sources：ABCテレビ《'神の使い'奈良のシカ 胃に3. 2キロものポリ袋の块が》

*Reference: BBC how does plastic slowly kill our marine creatures, fish and birds BBC fact check: does seafood control really swallow 10000 pieces of plastic every year Plastic pollution: whale pain you should understand

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