Yearly Archives: 2007

The team arrived on site on Saturday 17 November. Lots of birds slicked with oil washed have been ashore. So far, 115 oiled birds, mainly grapes and cots, were collected by volunteers and brought into a very basic camp.

A team consisting on Hugo Nijkamp (Director, Sea Alarm), Claude Velter (Pro-bird Belgium) and Toni Jokinen (WWF-Finland) are travelling on site tonight to make an assessment together with WWF Russia.

Today we came across a short video which shows that clean-up activities are taking place and that workers also find oiled birds on the shore (http://www.greenpeace.org/russia/rus/1531282). More details are found at these sites: Black Sea Oil Spill Effects to Last…

It is still hard to get information from local organisations in the area of the incident. All relevant international organisations that we contacted so far seem to be facing this problem, so at the moment the international media are also…

Sunday 11 November 2007, immediately after media reports appeared, the Black Sea information sheet on vulnerable bird populations was updated at the www.oiledwildlife.eu website, or read the information sheet directly here (see Section 4.2 Technical documents).