On Peru's protected Fishermen's Island, birds are still dying a month after oil spill

Giancarlo Inga Diaz, a veterinarian of the National Service of Natural Protected Areas (SERNANP), picks dead marine birds covered in oil from the sea after Spain's Repsol spilled more than 10,000 barrels of crude into the Pacific Ocean, near Isla Pescadores, Peru February 9, 2022. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

Peppered with fishing boats and thousands of hungry marine birds, from afar Peru's protected Isla Pescadores - Spanish for Fishermen's Island - looks much as it always has.

But what is different now is that the boats are not fishing at the island, they are cleaning up an oil spill.