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#MauritiusOilDisaster 🇲🇺🇯🇵9/4 Japan’s @asahi & @kyodo_english reports the #MauritiusReefs remain ‘healthy’ despite the widespread #Wakashio oil spill. However, their reports contradict one another 💯 % in one critical aspect; the effects on the mangroves.Thread⤵️
Asahi reported this: "Eleven mangrove forests in the southeastern part of the island have been found to be CONTAMINATED by drifted oil. OIL-COATED SEAWEED REMAINS at the base of the mangroves." (via DeepL translation+edit. Emphasis added) digital.asahi.com/articles/ASN94…
Kyodo reported this: "NO ENTRY OF OIL has been confirmed in mangroves, and NO OIL COATING on their roots has been observed either (in the wetlands)," said Noriaki Sakaguchi, a deputy team leader and an ecosystem conservation expert" at JICA.
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#モーリシャス重油流出事故 🇲🇺🇯🇵 仮訳「世界中のヘアサロンがモーリシャスの海を守るために行っていること」(VOGUE|2020.8.13)How Hair Salons Are Mobilizing to Help Clean Up the #MauritiusOilSpill #MauritiusOilDisaster vogue.com/article/maurit… via @voguemagazine
1. 7月の終わり頃、モーリシャス沖で一隻の貨物船が座礁し1000トン以上の重油がインド洋のターコイズ色の海に流出。島や周辺の生態系に壊滅的な影響をもたらした。

「あらゆる意味で『大惨事』といえるでしょう」

海洋環境保全団体「Ocean Conservancy」代表のジャニス・ジョーンズ氏はこう語る。
2. 事態は途方もなく深刻だ。海域固有の生態系(世界でも最も美しいとされるサンゴ礁など)だけでなく、モーリシャスに住むすべての人びとの食糧事情や主要な収入源である観光、そして生活が脅かされるからだ。

ジョーンズ代表は次のように語った。
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