Bulk carrier leaking oil on Solomons Islands reef after running aground
by Lisa Martin from Environment | The Guardian on (#49DED)
Cyclone delays clean-up after MV Solomon Trader ran aground in rough seas at Kangava Bay, near world heritage site
The Solomon Islands prime minister has asked Australia for emergency help cleaning up an environmental disaster after oil spilled from a bulk carrier that ran aground on a coral reef near a world heritage area.
The MV Solomon Trader had been loading bauxite when rough seas pushed it aground at Kangava Bay, Rennell Island, on the night of 4 February. The East Rennell world heritage site, which forms part of the island, 250km south of the capital, Honiara, is the largest raised coral atoll in the world. Since 2013 the site has been on a Unesco danger list because of logging and overfishing.
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