Volunteers reported large palm oil spills in the Temryuk district.

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In two days, volunteers from the Dolphins headquarters, who are cleaning up the coast of the Kerch Strait from fuel oil, collected 380 bags of palm oil.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", volunteers from the Dolphins headquarters reported on February 21 that the coast in the village of Volna was polluted with palm oil emissions.

Volunteers from the Dolphins headquarters, who are cleaning up the coast of the Kerch Strait from fuel oil, reported on February 27 On February 1, volunteers reported on their Telegram channel that palm oil spills had occurred in the Tuzla area and the village of Volna. They said there was fuel oil in the inspected area, but only in small amounts, but "the main problem now is palm oil."

They said "palm oil is everywhere: in large clumps and fine crumbs all over the shore." "In Volna, everything is the same, unchanged. From the port to Uyut Tamani and on Makhlaevsky Slope, there are deposits of this same oil. The result: we're working with four pairs of hands. In three, we've already collected 300 bags of this nasty stuff," they wrote.

On February 29, they reported that oil collection was ongoing. "The good news is that it doesn't smell like fuel oil (there's another, equally unpleasant type), and the oil isn't as sticky or greasy as fuel oil. It's also a little easier to collect," the volunteers noted. They added that 80 bags of palm oil and oily sand were collected in one day.

As a reminder, the first reports of palm oil spills on the Bugay Spit appeared last spring. Relevant agencies stated that they had begun searching for the source of the spill, but no data was available at the time.

On December 15, 2024, two tankers carrying fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait. A crew member of one of the tankers died as a result. In addition, an oil spill occurred, leading to catastrophic environmental consequences, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Fuel Oil Spill in the Kerch Strait".

Materials on the consequences of the fuel oil spill have been collected by the Caucasian Knot on the page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".