Crisis Response Centre

This page lists the special sections that have been created on this site to deal with emergency environmental situations.

All sections listed below are archived unless otherwise stated. If  you need more  information, please contact the people to the right.

• Helicopter Crash, Nepal
  On the 23rd September 2006 tragedy struck when a helicopter carrying several dignitaries, crew and WWF staff crashed in the high mountains of Nepal during bad weather.
  
  

• Tsunamis Indian Ocean Rim countries
  The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.15, triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on December 26, 2004 that killed approximately 275,000 people (more than 168,000 in Indonesia alone), making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.
  
  

• Prestige tanker, oil spill, Spain
  The Prestige sank on 19 November 2002, 211km off the coast of Spain. It went down with approx. 65,000 tonnes of oil on board – twice that spilt by the Exxon Valdez. The latest reports indicate that the sunken vessel is leaking more oil.
  
  
  
• Tasmin tanker, oil spill, Pakistan
  28 July 2003: a stricken tanker, the Tasman Spirit, spills 28,000 tons of crude oil into the sea off the Karachi coast.

We no longer have the following crisis-response sections on this site:

• Galapagos oil spill
  
  
  
• Oil spill, Brittany, France
  
  
  
• Cyanide leak, Balkans