GOOD magazine has the story:
Can you think of a worse place to wreck an oil tanker than a beautiful, pristine island in the South Atlantic where a National Geographic photographer just happens to be on assignment shooting endangered birds?
Photographer Andrew Evans was “following a lifelong dream” photographing endangered Northern Rockhopper Penguins on the remote Nightingale Islands.
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Last week, while Evans was there, the MV Oliva ran aground on Nightingale Island, “spilling its cargo of soybeans and some 800 tons of fuel oil onto the coast.” So Evans’ assignment turned from one of glorious bird watching to documenting ecological catastrophe