印尼海岸發現抹香鯨屍體 腹中滿是塑料垃圾
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.
印度尼西亞一座國家公園的管理者們表示，他們在一隻被衝上岸、已經死去的抹香鯨的胃裏，發現有近6公斤（13磅）的塑料垃圾。Items found included 115 drinking cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags and two flip-flops.
這些垃圾包括115個飲水杯、4個塑料瓶、25個塑料袋和兩隻人字拖。The carcass of the 9.5m (31ft) mammal was found in waters near Kapota Island in the Wakatobi National Park late last Monday.
上週一較晚時候，在瓦卡託比國家公園的卡波塔島附近水域，管理者們發現了一頭9.5米（31英尺）長的哺乳動物的屍體。
"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.
美聯社援引世界自然基金會印尼區海洋物種保護協調員Dwi Suprapti的話稱：“雖然我們無法推斷這隻鯨魚的死亡原因，但我們看到的事實確實非常糟糕。”It was not possible to say whether the plastic had caused the whale's death because of its advanced state of decay, she added.
她補充稱，很難說塑料是否是鯨魚死亡的誘因，因爲屍體被發現時就已經很腐爛了。The use of throwaway plastic is a particular problem in some South East Asian countries, including Indonesia.
在包括印度尼西亞在內的一些東南亞國家，一次性塑料的使用是一個很嚴重的問題。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.
根據環境保護組織海洋守護者協會和麥肯錫商業與環境中心2015年的一份報告，五個亞洲國家--中國，印度尼西亞，菲律賓，越南和泰國--製造了全球60%的海洋塑料廢物。
