Volunteers join efforts in Peru to save stricken sea birds after oil spill

  • Date: 22-Jan-2022
  • Source: Euronews
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:Gulf
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Volunteers join efforts in Peru to save stricken sea birds after oil spill

Volunteers, environmentalists, authorities and workers from Lima's zoo have joined efforts in Peru to tend to animals on the capital's beaches, affected by an oil spill earlier this week.

A surge of waves caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano near Toga, caused a Repsol tanker to drop and spill its cargo of 6,000 oil barrels while offloading at a refinery.

Peru has declared the spill an environmental emergency.