FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The Shahid Bagheri, bombed on 6 March, began leaking heavy fuel, which started drifting toward the Hara mangrove forest, a critical habitat for migrating birds and endangered turtles in the Middle East The ship has been grounded in shallow waters in the middle of the Khuran Strait, a narrow, ecologically significant channel between the Iranian mainland and the island of Qeshm. With Iran being under heavy bombardment the past 5 weeks, cleanup efforts have been impossible, allowing the oil to drift slowly westward toward the Hara Biosphere Reserve, the largest mangrove forest along the Gulf shoreline. RelatedNews Iranian vessel reportedly on fire days after US navy operation Windward: Hormuz shipping is increasingly going dark var jnews_module_21369651_0_6a03367335684 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21369651","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"4346,1731,2759,1737","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_rando