Environmentalists in New Zealand gave warning last Friday, October 7 about the big marine disaster as an oil spill from a grounded container ship continued to spread, affecting wildlife such as the whales, penguins, seals and fishes. Just last Tuesday, October 4, not less than 4 seabirds were found dead in the waters around the 236-m long Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe reef, 12 nautical miles off Tauranga, in the Bay of Plenty. Environment Minister, Nick Smith, said, “The spill which is now 6 km long as the potential to be New Zealand’s most significant marine pollution disaster in decades.”
via William J Shaw
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