About 10 thousand birds, including those listed in the Red Book, may become extinct due to the release of fuel oil in the Krasnodar Territory. Entire populations of skuas, petrels, gulls, cormorants, swans, and so on are under threat.
Birds are doing poorly due to low temperatures. The fuel oil freezes into fluff, the birds stick to the ground and freeze. Plus, their susceptibility to the substance becomes more acute, and heat and water insulation stops working. Not only local grebes, great cormorants, gulls, black-headed gulls and sea pigeons wintering in the south are in danger.
Hundreds of volunteers are preparing to go out to clean up the beaches of Anapa. People buy thermal underwear, tents and heating for them, bags, shovels, warm gloves, boots and waterproof clothing. A prerequisite for volunteers is chemical protection suits and special shoes.
A third of the fuel oil will be collected with shovels, the other part with absorbents (hay and sawdust) in the coastal zone. This way you can scoop up the slurry in shallow water and dispose of at least half of it. If the substance does not melt away with the current.
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