Peppered with fishing boats and thousands of hungry marine birds, from afar Peru's protected Isla Pescadores - Spanish for Fishermen's Island - looks much as it always has.
But what is different now is that the boats are not fishing at the island, they are cleaning up an oil spill.
A five-hour trip to the island with a team from Sernanp, the agency tasked with supervising Peru's natural reserves, underscored the extent of the Jan. 15 spill on Peru's Pacific waters. Before the spill, the island was home to 160,000 Guanay cormorants, according to Sernanp, as well as a large number of Peruvian boobys and Humboldt penguins. These birds are under threat from the oil, which is most visible on their chests and beaks.
Miguel Ramirez, a fisherman working for Sernanp and making daily trips to Isla Pescadores, said they are finding more dead birds every day. Peruvian regulators say Repsol has taken too long to clean up the spill but the Spanish company says it is working as fast as possible and that it has been denied access to protected areas affected by the slick, like Isla Pescadores.Repsol has said it will finish cleaning the ocean later this month and completeThe cause of the spill, which took place as oil was being discharged from a tanker into Repsol's La Pampilla refinery, the country's largest, is still under investigation.
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