Crying for my beloved island Mauritius

MaryQueenie·Aug 07, 2020

Posted in:Misc

Hi Elphas, My heart aches for our lagoon: Blue Bay. A foreign cargo had a wreck and failure to properly repair resulting in a massive oil spill in our protected lagoon. It was home to many endemic species!!!We're all putting heads together to manufacture "absorbing nets" to try to mitigate the oil in the seawater. It will take years before this ecosystem can be rebuilt!!!

MaryQueenie·Aug 07, 2020

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Iynna·Aug 08, 2020

@maryqueen, Malagasy sister over here - I am so sorry this is happening back home :'( and there is a lot that needs to get fixed to preserve our environmental ecosystem and it starts here with spreading awareness ! So glad you posted here

MaryQueenie·Aug 07, 2020

How bad it is!!! 😭😭😭😭

teresaman·Aug 07, 2020

This is so sad!! I've heard only beautiful things about Mauritius. How are the animals doing from the spill?

MaryQueenie·Aug 07, 2020

Very bad! We’re all collaborating with the Mauritius Wildlife to rescue the endemic animals from small islands around Mauritius forming part of the territory. Our zoo is helping to shelter those rescued! 😭😭

MaryQueenie·Aug 07, 2020

The ship is kind of partially sinking and stuck in the coral reefs! The foreign country has sent help but seems like it’s a tedious task! Those coral reefs were in a protected zone

MaryQueenie·Aug 09, 2020

Effective hair based nets to prevent oil spill from spreading! 🙌🙌🙌 Little win! Still the wrecked ship is sinking. Re: Titanic😢🙏