• Environment: An oil slick reaches the paradisiacal coast of the island of Mauritius
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The ship stranded since last July 25 in the reefs of Pointe d'Esny, off the southeast coast of Mauritius and that spread 800 metric tons of crude oil in its waters , split this Saturday in two, an advisor confirmed to Efe island environment.

"The Wakashio bulk carrier has broken and fractured in two," Mokshanand Sunil Dowarkasing, an environmental advisor in Mauritius, a paradise island in the Indian Ocean located east of Madagascar, told Efe by telephone.

"It was something expected, and this morning a helicopter rushed to the race in order to transport the crude that was being extracted from the ship or because the authorities and rescue teams feared that it would depart in a matter of hours," explained this expert.

Environmental disaster

"It is one of the most serious ecological disasters on the island and has occurred in the largest lagoon and one of the most beautiful in the country, " Mokshanand Sunil Dowarkasing, environmental advisor in Mauritius, explained to Efe a few weeks ago in a telephone conversation from the coast. Former Head of Strategy for the environmental protection organization Greenpeace Africa.

"The oil spill has already reached our coast. Where I am standing is already contaminated with fuel (...) I can say, from my experience, that this area is not going to be what it used to be. We have already killed it, It will take about a hundred years to get back to what it was, "said Dowarkasing.

The environmental disaster is registered in the southeast of the island, in front of the area called Pointe d'Esny, where the MV Wakashio bulk carrier remains stranded, expelling fuel towards the nearby beaches and lagoons.

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