In Switzerland, the authorities had a deer killed that had six kilograms of plastic in its stomach. The animal had become a security risk because it had to deal with compost heaps and birdhouses in two villages in the canton of Graubünden, as the Office for Hunting and Fishing in Graubünden announced.
The deer therefore had to be killed. When examining the carcass, six kilograms of plastic waste were discovered, including plastic gloves, cords and bird feed nets. With the first snow, the food supply, for example on compost heaps or in birdhouses, enticed animals into the mountain villages, it was said.
It is difficult to protect them from plastic, said Reinhard Schnidrig from the Federal Office for the Environment on Swiss radio. When searching for food, animals also pick up plastic waste if it contains food and they smell.
"Covers organic waste!"
It is important to protect organic waste from wild animals, from deer and deer, but above all from bears and wolves, said Schniedrig: "If organic waste is covered, put these compost heaps in your gardens in such a way that they are not tackled by wild animals can."
A similar case from Thailand had recently caused a sensation: there the authorities discovered a deer with seven kilos of garbage in its stomach - such as underpants, plastic bags, instant coffee bags and rubber gloves.
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Dead deer in Thailand: plastic in the bellyA few months earlier, the death of another animal had caused media attention due to large amounts of plastic in the digestive tract: the Dugong baby "Marium" died in August this year. The orphaned animal was stranded in Thailand in April and was nicknamed the "darling of the nation". Aid workers had kept the world up to date on social media about caring for the manatee orphan.
The attending veterinarian wrote in a Facebook post that the death of the Dugong baby should be a wake-up call for environmental protection for people.