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Published online 6 June 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020603-3
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Spill starves iguanas
Ecologist sues over wrecked iguana study.
An ecologist whose studies of marine iguanas in the Galapagos Islands were damaged by an oil spill is suing the oil tanker's owner and insurer.
Martin Wikelski of Princeton University in New Jersey is seeking US$600,000 in damages as part of a wider, $14-million claim being made by the Galapagos National Park against the master, owners and insurers of the Jessica , a tanker that ran aground on the island of San Cristóbal in January 2001.
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