Fishermen found another dead sperm whale on the shore of Sitio Sakalig, Barangay Sugal in Jose Abad Santos town in Davao Occidental on Saturday. /PDI
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office , the Davao Museum, and the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office were scheduled to debone the whale on Sunday.The report, however, did not identify the particular sperm whale species as several of these mammals had been found dead in the last 10 years in several areas around Davao Gulf.
In 2016, local newspapers reported that some of the beached whales were found to have eaten plastics, an indication that nonbiodegradable waste had been indiscriminately disposed of despite the implementation of the Solid Waste Management Act. The five-year Strengthening Marine Protected Areas to Conserve Marine Key Biodiversity Areas in the Philippines project identified the Davao Gulf among the key marine areas that needed to be protected because of its marine biodiversity.As a project supported by the United Nations Development Programme , which ended in 2019, SMARTSeas PH reported sightings of sperm whales around the gulf. Most of the whales that died, however, were beached.
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