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Published online 18 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020916-6
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Oil spill clean-up enters critical phase
South African ecologists are hoping their luck holds out.
The operation to salvage the wrecked cargo ship spilling oil off South Africa's most important wetland has entered a critical phase. Damage to wildlife has so far been minimal, say local ecologists, but the potential for harm is still great.
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