Bird Affected by Oil Spill near Sisargas Islands

A badly oiled Northern Gannet is rescued by volunteers near the Sisargas Islands after the sinking of the oil tanker "Prestige".

Unique identifier: GP01ZV

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/11/2002

Locations: Galicia, Sisargas Island, Spain, Western Europe

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Pedro Armestre

Size: 4793px × 3281px 6MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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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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