A polar bear snapped with a noose around its neck from a discarded fishing net serves as a stark reminder of how plastic waste is strangling the world's wildlife - both metaphorically and literally. The animal was trapped with the fishing net around its neck on the icy coast of Svalbard, Norway. Scroll down for videoDad-of-two Svein Wik, 55, snapped the unsettling image as he led a photography exhibition last August. Mr Wik also snapped another curious and hungry polar bear sniffing and pawing at plastic fishing boxes washed up on the beach during the trip. 'I reported the bear to local authorities and two weeks later they found it from their helicopter, tranquilised it and removed the net.

Source: Daily Mail February 20, 2019 13:52 UTC