Amazon oil spill has killed tons of fish, sickened native people
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This rupture of Peru’s 39-year-old northern crude oil pipeline has terrified Kukama villagers along the Marañón River [a tributary of Amazon river]. People’s complaints of nausea and skin rashes are aggravated by nervousness about eating the fish, concerns about their lost income and fears that oil will spread throughout the tropical forest and lakes when seasonal flooding begins in November. Cuninico, a village of wooden, stilt-raised, palm-thatched houses, is home to about 130 families but several hundred families in other communities also fish nearby.
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