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Keywords
Animal rescue centres
Birds
British Petroleum (BP)
Cleaning
Day
Disasters
Indoors
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil (Industry)
Oil spills
Pelicans
People
Toxics (campaign title)
Volunteers
Oiled Brown Pelican in Louisiana
An adult brown pelican is carried by a volunteer as she starts the cleaning process at the Fort Jackson International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras. Members of the Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research team work to clean birds covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead disaster. The BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded on April 20 and sank after burning.
Unique identifier:
GP023IN
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
20/06/2010
Locations:
Buras
,
Gulf of Mexico
,
Louisiana
,
North America
,
United States of America
Credit line:
© Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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.
Related Collections:
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster (Photo & Videos)
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