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The lake in the heart of Venezuela’s oil territory is coated with slimy crude and neon green algae. Now fishers, scientists, local people and even human hair are being deployed to clean it up
The original title of this photo essay by Camille Rodríguez Montilla (reporting for The Guardian from Maracaibo, Venezuela) with photographs by Rosana Silva, is “‘It’s not perfect – but it’s not dead’: the mission to save Lake Maracaibo – a photo essay.” Years of inadequate waste management and neglect of oil infrastructure have polluted this…