Environmental disaster in Brazil: 600 tons of oil have already been collected

This information corrected another data given in the afternoon, in which 525 tons of waste were recorded. The collection was carried out by volunteers and employees of the national, state and municipal governments, said Naval Operations Commander Leonarto Puntel.

As of September 2, 67 registered animals have been registered but this "does not mean that they will die," said Olivaldi Azevedo of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (Ibama) .

The Navy, Ibama and the National Petroleum Agency, which make up the Monitoring Group, gave a press conference at the ports of Pernambuco, one of the states most affected by the spill.

Between Thursday and Sunday, 71 tons of waste was collected in Pernambuco, the second largest state in the north-east.

For its part, the Federal Ministry of Justice on Sunday asked the federal justice to invite the national government to install protective barriers at sea within 24 hours in order to prevent the arrival of oil and monitor the situation of ecologically more vulnerable areas.

At the same time, the Minister of the Environment said that the government was acting in the face of the crisis and criticized the lack of "answers" from the authorities of the state of Bahia, the most important of the Northeast .

He thus refuted the governor of Bahia, Rui Costa, who, along with eight other northeastern governors, promoted the call finally accepted by the court by summoning the federal authorities.