Human waste and sewage from hundreds of Chinese ships anchored in the South China Sea and parts of the West Philippine Sea are causing massive marine damage to the resource-rich waters, a US-based expert said Monday.
Liz Derr, founder and CEO of Simularity, which specializes in geospatial analysis and provides satellite data imagery, revealed that Chinese ships have been dumping raw sewage every day for several years on reefs, creating harmful Chlorophyll-a blooms in the waters.
“It is so intense you can see it from space,” Derr told an online forum hosted by the Stratbase ADR Institute on the 5th anniversary of the Philippines’ landmark arbitral tribunal victory against China.
Showing satellite images in the last five years, Derr said effluent from Chinese ships are causing elevated concentrations of Chlorophyll-a leading to "a cascade of reef damage that will take decades to recover even with active mitigation."
“When the ships don’t move, the poop piles up,” she said. “The damage to the reefs in the last five years is visible and dramatic.”
The Philippines Defence authoritie are investigating.
Probably this should be named as the Chinese Ship & Shit Initiative.
Liz Derr, founder and CEO of Simularity, which specializes in geospatial analysis and provides satellite data imagery, revealed that Chinese ships have been dumping raw sewage every day for several years on reefs, creating harmful Chlorophyll-a blooms in the waters.
“It is so intense you can see it from space,” Derr told an online forum hosted by the Stratbase ADR Institute on the 5th anniversary of the Philippines’ landmark arbitral tribunal victory against China.
Showing satellite images in the last five years, Derr said effluent from Chinese ships are causing elevated concentrations of Chlorophyll-a leading to "a cascade of reef damage that will take decades to recover even with active mitigation."
“When the ships don’t move, the poop piles up,” she said. “The damage to the reefs in the last five years is visible and dramatic.”
The Philippines Defence authoritie are investigating.
Probably this should be named as the Chinese Ship & Shit Initiative.
. මැදමුලනෙ රාජ පකයගෙ ගූ කන බල්ලෙක් හුකල කරුමෙට වැටුන එකෙක් කියන කතා
