Ecuador: Oil spill impacts Amazon nature reserve
By DW
02 February 2022 |
8:16 am
Nearly five acres of Ecuador's Cayambe-Coca National Park have been polluted after an oil pipeline burst. The government has vowed legal consequences for the company involved in the disaster.
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