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Keywords
Animal rescue centres
Birds
Close ups
Day
Disasters
Gloves
Greenpeace volunteers
Harbours
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil (Industry)
Oil spills
One person
Outdoors
Rescue
Toxics (campaign title)
Bird Affected by Oil Spill in Muxia
A volunteer is holding a bird stained with oil, after having been rescued from the area affected by the sinking of the Prestige.
Unique identifier:
GP0185N
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
28/11/2002
Locations:
Muxia
,
Spain
,
Western Europe
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Pedro Armestre
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
Containers
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Prestige Sinking Oil Spill in Galicia
The Prestige oil spill off the coast of Galicia was caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing industry. The spill is the largest environmental disaster of both Spain's history and Portugal's history. The Prestige was a Greek-operated, single-hulled oil tanker, officially registered in the Bahamas, but with a Liberian-registered single-purpose corporation as the owner.
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