French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Saturday to send teams and equipment to help Mauritius deal with an oil spill that environmentalists fear could be a major ecological disaster.
FILE PHOTO: A satellite image shows the bulk carrier ship MV Wakashio and its oil spill after it ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius, August 7, 2020. Satellite image ?2020 Maxar Technologies/via REUTERS
Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, prime minister of Mauritius, declared a state of environmental emergency and pleaded for international help on Friday.Macron responded by saying France was deploying teams and equipment from Reunion Island. The vessels is leaking diesel and oil into lagoons, threatening the survival of thousands of species which are at “risk of drowning in a sea of pollution,” according to Greenpeace.
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