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Keywords
Accidents
Children
Cleaning
Climate (campaign title)
Day
Disasters
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil spills
Outdoors
People
River pollution
Rivers
Toxics (campaign title)
UNESCO
Oil Spill Cleaning Operations in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
Local people collect furnace oil from the waters of the Sela river, in the mangrove forest of Sundarbans, Bangladesh, a UNESCO World Heritage site where an oil-tanker named Southern Star VII, carrying 350,000 litres of furnace oil was sunk in the river after it had been hit by a cargo vessel. The event is very threatening to the region's flora and fauna.
Unique identifier:
GP0STORRN
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
11/12/2014
Locations:
Asia
,
Bangladesh
,
Bangladesh Sundarbans
Credit line:
© Syed Zakir Hossain / Greenpeace
Size:
4896px × 3264px 2MB
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Oil Spill in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
On 9 December 2014 an oil spill occurred at the Sela river of Sundarbans, Bangladesh, a UNESCO World Heritage site, when an oil-tanker named Southern Star VII, carrying 350,000 litres of furnace oil was sunk in the river after it had been hit by a cargo vessel. By December 17, the oil spread over 350 km2 area. The slick spread to a second river and a network of canals in the Sundarbans and blackened the shoreline. The event was very threatening to trees, plankton, vast populations of small fishes and dolphins. The event occurred at a protected Sundarbans mangrove area, home to rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins.
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