[CPEO-MEF] "Munitions Fire Destroys South Atlantic Bird Sanctuary"

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Munitions Fire Destroys South Atlantic Bird Sanctuary 

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PORT STANLEY, Falkland Islands, January 23, 2001 (ENS) - A remote haven for
South Atlantic seabirds has been all but destroyed in a fire started by British
troops attempting to remove ordnance. 

South Jason Island is a nature reserve owned by the Falklands Government. It is
an internationally important seabird site, which contained an estimated 1,750
pairs of black-browed albatrosses and 900 pairs of rockhopper penguins. 

That was until January 12 when United Kingdom military personnel visited South
Jason to explode ammunition found at a site where two Argentinian planes were
shot down during the Falklands War in 1982.


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