When we paused the briefing for the month of August, we committed to continuing to monitor emerging issues and to making you aware of anything important. We believe that the Mauritius oil spill is an important issue for ocean protection. As such, this media briefing covers the development of the oil spill story in English-language legacy media since 25th July.
In this briefing we will not provide communications recommendations. Instead, we want to direct your support to a campaign that is being supported by Oceans 5. This effort is supporting marches that will take place in Mauritius this weekend and an associated open letter to the Prime Minister of Mauritius.
You can find their open letter here. To sign on to the letter or for further information please contact zara.currimjee@gmail.com.
The social media assets in this briefing support the messages of this campaign.
Join the conversation on social media using
#RecoverRestoreProtect and #Mauritius
The full OneOcean Response Room weekly briefing and supporting analysis is available to Flotilla members. If your organisation is interested in receiving this briefing, is not a member and interested in joining, please email travis@oceanprotect.org
Summary of findings
- Initial lag time between running aground and international coverage
- Compelling coverage of local community clean-up reaction, transitioned into international response
- Primary focus of reporting ecological damage and environmental loss
- Some mention of damage to local livelihoods and tourism industry as consequence.