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Mauritius oil spill: Locals scramble to contain environmental damage

The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is dealing with an oil spill from the MV Wakashio, believed to have been carrying 4,000 tonnes of fuel oil, a thousand is now thought to have leaked.

It ran aground on a coral reef off the island on 25 July. Volunteers are scrambling to create cordons to contain the spill, making them from absorbent barriers of straw and even their own hair stuffed into fabric sacks. Amaury is a citizen involved in the effort.

(Picture: a homemade cordon or boom in Mauritius, August 2020. Credit: Amaury)

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