Mauritius Oil Spill
Mauritius races to contain oil spill protect coastline.
Mauritius oil spill. Johannesburg ap thousands of students environmental activists and residents of mauritius were working around the clock sunday trying to reduce the damage to the indian ocean island from an oil spill after a ship ran aground on a coral reef. Mauritius races to contain oil spill protect coastline. Ap a state of environmental emergency has been declared in mauritius after a ship that ran.
Andrew meldrum and mari yamaguchi. Thousands of students environmental activists and residents of mauritius have been working around the clock to reduce the damage to the indian ocean island from an oil spill after a tanker ran. Mauritius has declared an environmental emergency due to a huge oil spill off its shores picture.
Volunteers in mauritius are scrambling to create cordons to keep leaking oil from a ship away from the island. The mv wakashio believed to have been carrying 4 000 tonnes of fuel oil ran aground. Mauritius races to contain oil spill protect coastline thousands of students environmental activists and residents of mauritius are working around the clock to reduce the damage done to the.
An estimated 1 ton of oil has already escaped into the indian ocean after a japanese ship ran aground off the island s southeast coast.