Oil Spill off Tauranga Threatens Bird and Marine Life

A large oil spill off the Bay of Plenty coast is threatening wild life when the breeding season is in full swing.
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Oil Spill off Tauranga Threatens Bird and Marine Life
Little blue penguin found at Papamoa Beach covered in oil after Liberian cargo ship Rena hit a reef on 6 October 2011 off the coast of Tauranga. Sunlive New Zealand/Getty Images
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/Penguin_Oil_Spill.jpg" alt="Little blue penguin found at Papamoa Beach covered in oil after Liberian cargo ship Rena hit a reef on 6 October 2011 off the coast of Tauranga. (Sunlive New Zealand/Getty Images)" title="Little blue penguin found at Papamoa Beach covered in oil after Liberian cargo ship Rena hit a reef on 6 October 2011 off the coast of Tauranga. (Sunlive New Zealand/Getty Images)" width="250" class="size-medium wp-image-1796731"/></a>
Little blue penguin found at Papamoa Beach covered in oil after Liberian cargo ship Rena hit a reef on 6 October 2011 off the coast of Tauranga. (Sunlive New Zealand/Getty Images)
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