{"id":31012,"date":"2018-06-06T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=31012"},"modified":"2018-06-06T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:12:14","slug":"a-pilot-whale-has-died-in-southern-thailand-after-swallowing-17-pounds-of-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/06\/a-pilot-whale-has-died-in-southern-thailand-after-swallowing-17-pounds-of-plastic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pilot Whale Has Died in Southern Thailand After Swallowing 17 Pounds of Plastic Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We all know that plastic waste accumulates in the oceans creating giant garbage gyres. It is now becoming clear that our garbage is killing off huge numbers of sea creatures and is particularly bad for whales that eat huge quantities of a wide variety of foods.\u00a0 See this sad story and video from<\/em> Time.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The distressed whale was found last Monday in a canal in southern Thailand near the border with Malaysia, according to officials from Thailand\u2019s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources. A veterinary team rescued the whale and attempted to \u201cstabilize its illness,\u201d according to AFP, but it died Friday after vomiting five plastic bags. An autopsy exhumed\u00a08 kg\u00a0(more than 17 lb) of additional plastic rubbish from the whale\u2019s stomach, the department said in a\u00a0Facebook\u00a0post.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5299868\/whale-dies-eating-plastic-bags\/\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that plastic waste accumulates in the oceans creating giant garbage gyres. It is now becoming clear that our garbage is killing off huge numbers of sea creatures and is particularly bad for whales that eat huge quantities of a wide variety of foods.\u00a0 See this sad story and video from Time.com. &nbsp; &#8220;The distressed whale was found last Monday in a canal in southern Thailand near the border with Malaysia, according to officials from Thailand\u2019s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources. A veterinary team rescued the whale and attempted to \u201cstabilize its illness,\u201d according to AFP, but it died Friday after vomiting five plastic bags. An autopsy exhumed\u00a08 kg\u00a0(more than 17 lb) of additional plastic rubbish from the whale\u2019s stomach, the department said in a\u00a0Facebook\u00a0post.&#8221;\u00a0 Read more.\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31030,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012\/revisions\/31030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}