The Tricolor oil spill: an incident that should have been prevented

Winter 2002/2003 will be remembered as a black season by those unfortunate enough to become involved in a series of oil spills that killed many tens of thousands of seabirds in West European waters. For most, the Prestige spill was by far the most dramatic event and this incident received most media attention. Overshadowed by the Prestige in many respects, but arguably at least as harmful to European seabirds, was the Tricolor spill that took place in the French Channel. This special issue of Atlantic Seabirds is a summary of what we now know about the seabirds killed: how many were affected,... Mehr ...