A huge oil slick in the Southern Atlantic is threatening to wipe out the world’s largest colony of the endangered Northern Rockhopper penguin and other rare species, including the Speckled petrel.
The slick was caused last week when the oil tanker the MS Oliva ran into Nightingale Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago and a World Heritage Site. The tanker has since broken in two and the slick has completely surrounded Nightingale and Inaccessible Islands, both of which are of international wildlife importance.
via Oil Slick Threatens to Exterminate Penguins – EcoLocalizer.
