Share to TwitterThis photo taken and provided by Eric Villars shows oil leaking from the MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that recently ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius are stuffing fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves to create makeshift oil spill barriers as tons of fuel leak from a grounded ship.
Satellite images show a dark slick spreading in the turquoise waters near wetlands that the government called “very sensitive.” Wildlife workers and volunteers, meanwhile, ferried dozens of baby tortoises and rare plants from an island near the spill, Ile aux Aigrettes, to the mainland. University students and members of the local Lions and Rotary clubs are among the volunteers, he said.
A French military transport aircraft was carrying pollution control equipment to Mauritius and a navy vessel with additional material planned to sail from the nearby French island of Reunion.
Crisis after crisis. The world is too much with us.
2020 refuses to budge
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JapanGov japan Your ship has destroyed such a beautiful place and all you can do is send team of 6 people to assist! Disgusting!
OMG I am crying.
This is a tragedy... Ironically Mauritius accepted a grant of $2.8 million dollars from the Japanese government supposedly for boats for the coast guard and 1.34 billion Yen for Met radars... Is that the new cost of ecological disasters?
Man this really pisses me off What do they expect man Ruined the beauty of that water man Pissing me man
This is so heartbreaking. This seems to happen way too frequently. A change should be made. Put time, effort, and money into finding more sustainable alternatives.
This ship 'hit' a reef in charted waters in JULY. What was the composition of the oil leaking? Dirty? Were oil companies involved in trouble? LWhy didnt Mauritian Govt act earlier? Whole thing stinks & needs investigating MauritiusOilSpill MauritiusOilDisaster Mauritius
The MV Wakashio is owned by the Nagashiki Shipping Company and operated by Mitsui OSK Line. They are FULLY responsible for this and must ACT in helping Mauritius clear up this disaster NOW and in years to come MVWakashio NagashikiShipping Mitsui MitsuiOSKLine MauritiusPM
Thank you for sharing
We don’t deserve this earth
To all the people of Mauritius volunteering to save marine life and fight this environmental disaster we say well done! Using natural materials with any absorbency such as straw will help contain and soak up the oil MauritiusOilSpill Mauritius
Our beautiful creation in catastrophe 😒
Which country owns the freighter❓❓( ω-、) If it's not too much trouble, can you tell me❓❓
WaywardWinifred The whole planet is being destroyed by the FascistTakeover
AdleneGUEDIOURA 😢
I quickly concluded this accident wasn’t related to U.S. activity because it was in the first sentence. Had to read the entire article to discover the tanker is from China. Aren’t you afraid to offend your pals?
why was this crippled metal carcas even allowed to be in service. Runs a ground? Captain drunk?
How God can create such a beautiful green earth and create such an ugly human race. This planet is doomed and it’s humanities fault. No matter how many good people and actions it only takes a few terrible actions to undo and further destroy this precious planet.
Please consider the oleo sponge by Argonne
This is a defeat for the humanity... we are choosen a irreversible 💀 dead
Asuka_SGP2 日本政府は何してんだ💢 何て事してくれたんだよ💢
Let me guess.. the country who owns the ship won’t be held responsible, will pay zero fines, and the world will forget about this disaster in a week when news media moves on to more important items. If you or I are caught illegally dumping a battery, fines can be thousands of $$
Che orrore!😥😥😥😥
Greed! How much more can & will you destroy?
rhodrilloyd93
pdacosta Let's move to electric cars and electric transport NOW. This sort of thing will stop happening.
Fucking japs
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So how is everyone enjoying 2020 so far?
Terrible ... we just tear apart our environment slowly but surely.
squillbox This is getting pretty old now.
Keep on cleaning it up. Still nature has a healing system, our earth is wonderfully made!
Sad 😥
captsingh what's the nationality of the ship? how did this spill happen?
Please save the oceans wildlife and all the coastline nature.
It’s extremely dangerous for all ocean life. Please clean and treatment the ocean with bioremediation the most soon possible.
alt_uscbp Can you please provide/share a reliable source where I can donate to support the relief effort?
Mejor hay que dejar que todas las bombas atomicas nos mate! missMozote
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Oh man. The hits just keep coming. ☹️🤷🏻♂️
WTF !!!!!!! Cmon ! 🤬🤯😥
why did it took so long for the Japanese owners to get involved?
OIL SPILL: The justice league of Mauritius has declared a state of environmental emergency after a cargo ship hit a reef in the Indian Ocean. Fuel leaking from the ship is creating an ecological disaster, officials say, endangering sea life in the area.
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Humans are determined to destroy 😡🤬
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Dam! I don't think our muthr can take much more of our fukups! Humans are parasites! ☠️
I’m actually in TEARS
Ah cargo ship. Underwater water spills are rough. Offshore oil rigs should be banned.
Ya'll are gonna need bigger shovels!
Somebody called this that it was going to happen before the election. Whoever you are good call.
Oh boy, here we go again.
Sad sad for all of us
Yep 2020 is not over yet 🤪🤪🤪
People should use sail boats instead so when they hit reefs they don't leak oil.
We are slowly killing this planet
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We need to start preparing for proper emergencies! There is No room for mistakes especially when it comes to protecting the world from things like this sort of stuff. We are paying a lot taxes for a bunch of mistakes to be made. Seems like people aren’t doing their job right.
Dear Lord 2020 is not done
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This is outrageous!
I went to there about four years ago and the beautify scenes really impressed me... i’m japanese and really sorry...
This will bring unimaginable impact to the surrounding environment... I hope it would be as mimum as possible
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The oil business is destroying the only world we can live in. 😥
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Humans are the absolute worst
Nobody will be held accountable. People there will have to clean up
GHEEZUS...we're really fucking up this earth...
Noooo! Feel so bad for the creatures that live in the sea. Humans destroy their environments all the time.
So sad
I think they need human hair to help the ocean.Your country man can help each other to save our earth '' Do It''
let me guess......trumps fault right? hahaha
Dam! I don't think our muthr can take much more of our fukups! Humans like parasites! ☠️
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Man's inhumanity to Mother Earth. It never ends.
How many major oil spills do we have left before we just kill everything?
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It’s sad how the oil spills worldwide causes pollution to the natural resources around the world
OIL is the curse of life immunity!
Oil companies: 🤷🏼♂️oopsie daisies🤷🏼♂️
how many of the oil spills threats on earth are cargo ships from japan?
Oh no!!!!!
And it was sitting out at sea because of why......Can we say greed?
Omg 😭
Ew. Mess.
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