Having failed for a fourth time to plug the massive oil spill that has been leaking into the Timor Sea for over two months, environmentalist fear the extent of the impact of the oil spill, as details of the spill finally makes the international press (images below courtesy of WWF report).
“The team has described the leak as a “massive environmental disaster” on a scale with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, considered one of the most devastating, human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea.” Kara Burns/WWF
Oil-spilling into the Timor sea
Emaciated dolphin swimming in the oil
Sea snake in the oil
Slideshow of images from The Times Online.
Article from The Times, UK press
In other media…
Closer to home, there are doubts on the reliability of the tests being carried out on the marine life caught up in the spill. Click here to read more from The Age newspaper.
