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Keywords
Animal rescue centres
Cleaning
Day
Gloves
Hands
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil (Industry)
Oil spills
Outdoors
Penguins
Toxics (campaign title)
Victims
Water hoses
Tauranga National Oiled Wildlife Centre
A little blue penguin is cleaned of oil. It was rescued after being coated in oil, spilled from the container ship Rena which ran aground on the Astrolab Reef, about 20 kilometres form the Port of Taurnaga on October 5. The National Oiled Wildlife Centre, set up in Tauranga, includes a processing room, washing room, morgue and post mortem tent and rehabilitation clean room as well as swimming pools. Two weeks after the ship ran aground more than 50 little blue penguins have been cleaned while 1200 dead seabirds have been collected. Greenpeace New Zealand is campaigning against deep sea oil drilling off New Zealand's coasts, on the basis that such activity could well lead to a far worse spill than that from the Rena. The setting up of the final frontiers in oil exploration will also only make the climate crisis worse.
Unique identifier:
GP02K9H
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
15/10/2011
Locations:
Aotearoa
,
Oceania
,
Tauranga
Credit line:
© Natalie Robertson / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Tauranga National Oiled Wildlife Centre
The National Oiled Wildlife Centre, set up in Tauranga, includes a processing room, washing room, morgue and post mortem tent and rehabilitation clean room as well as swimming pools. Two weeks after the container ship Rena ran aground, more than 50 little blue penguins have been cleaned while 1200 dead seabirds have been collected.
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New Zealand Oil Spill (Photos & Videos)
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