China News network July 11, according to the "Central News Agency" reported, committed to protect Japan's Nara park deer herd "Nara deer protection association" 10 said that the famous tourist attractions Nara Park has 9 deer because swallowed plastic bags and died, the organization also warned that the reason for the death of deer may be the surge of local tourists.

"Nara's deer care Association" pointed out that between March and June this year, the dead deer were found in the stomach a large number of plastic bags and snack bags. "The largest amount of trash was found (in the stomach) in one of the nine deer, weighing 4.3kg," a staff member said. We were surprised, it was quite big."

Nara Park is known to be home to more than 1,000 deer, with some even roaming the streets in search of tasty cookies offered by sightseers.

Nara prohibits visitors from feeding anything except deer cakes, but the employee said some visitors still feed the deer with other snacks.

"The deer may think that the snacks and the plastic bags they come in are both food," the employee said. He revealed that the deer usually eat grass and acorns.

"They also eat plastic bags on the ground". He added that he believed there had been an increase recently "because of the growing number of tourists." The only way to avoid such incidents is to remove all the rubbish."

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