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Keywords
Animal rescue centres
Birds
British Petroleum (BP)
Cleaning
Day
Disasters
Gloves
Hands
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil (Industry)
Oil spills
Pelicans
Toxics (campaign title)
Volunteers
Oiled Brown Pelican in Louisiana
A Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is being washed. The International Bird Rescue Research Center has set up a facility in Fort Jackson to clean birds affected by oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. The BP leased oil platform exploded on April 20 and sank after burning.
Unique identifier:
GP022N4
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
26/05/2010
Locations:
Gulf of Mexico
,
Louisiana
,
North America
,
United States of America
Credit line:
© Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
The BP (British Petroleum) leased oil platform Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20 and sank after burning, leaking an estimate of more than 210,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers died during the disaster.
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