Animals suffering slow and painful deaths caused by helium balloons – Australia

Animals suffering slow and painful deaths caused by helium balloons – Australia

Posted on February 25, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons

Helium balloons are killing wildlife at one of Victoria’s top nature tourism destinations.

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Helium balloons are killing wildlife at one of Victoria’s most popular nature tourism destinations.

An Australian fur seal is the latest animal to be saved from a painful death caused by a burst balloon.

Researchers at Phillip Island are reporting that an increasing number of birds and animals are ingesting, or becoming tangled in, the remnants of burst helium balloons.

A young fur seal was saved by researchers this week after it was discovered with balloon ribbon wrapped around its neck.

Without intervention, the seal would have suffered and died a slow death while it grew with the ribbon cutting into its flesh.