Taking Sea Water Samples in Chiloé Island

Oceanographer Dr. Ernesto Molina with a team from Greenpeace carry out an investigation at 25, 15 and 5 miles off the coast of Chiloe island to take seawater samples to be examined and to determine the current status of the contamination. The team from Greenpeace Chile is in Chiloé Island for the second time to document the environmental crisis which caused the mass mortality of marine species on the coast of Chile.

Unique identifier: GP0STPUYH

Type: Image

Shoot date: 20/05/2016

Locations: Chile, Chiloé Island, South America

Credit line: © Cristobal Olivares / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Environmental Disaster Investigative Expedition in Chiloé

Activists and researchers from Greenpeace Chile have traveled for the second time to Chiloé Island to document the environmental crisis which caused the mass mortality of marine species on the coast of Chile.
The team includes an anthropologist to evaluate how the population has been affected.
In the last month alone, thousands of marine animals including birds, crabs and seals have washed ashore, dead, on Chiloé’s beaches. The call for an investigation comes after approximately five thousand tons of rotting salmon was discharged from salmon farming centers into the ocean on the largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean.

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