The Horrific Effects On Wildlife In The Gulf of Mexico

I am in no way trying to be overly political in this post, but am concerned about the grave effects suffered by wildlife there. Let's try to keep all comments away from raging debates, and concentrate on the needs of wildlife. Though our hearts go out to the many people that have been gravely effected by deaths, hardships, and loss, there are other sites more appropriate for those discussions.
 
Considering how unorganized BP is, the wildlife parks and zoos down there are doing one heck of job. The organization in these facilities is just phenomenal. As a volunteer at the Naitonal Aquairum, we get updates every week from some of our staff who are down in the Gulf. The amount of zoos and aquairums through out the country, opening up their space for injured animals to recover just blows my mind. I'm glad the zoological and aquairum community can work together to solve a very big problem.
 
BP's disorganization is only a part of the problem. The President and the governments lengthy inertia/inaction and refusal to let the states take action to clean up or protect their own areas of shoreline and marshes (the President's excuse that environmental impact studies had to be done before he would allow states to make sandbars to protect marshes, etc was so asinine when sandbars by far were obviously the lesser of the evils whereas the oil was a major threat!) , refusal to let other countries bring their ships and equipment and help with cleanup, and lack of communication with BP also were huge factors in contributing to the seriousness of the spill.

And if Michelle Obama was a smart lady, instead of going to Spain for vacation (with taxpayers having to pay all the bills of course, she would have gone on vacation to one of the Gulf coast's clean beaches, ate the safe Gulf seafood, and by example she could have given the economy of the Gulf states a major boost and also won a lot of American citizens approval.
 
A relative of a neighbor brought me a Gulf coast tarball, knowing I'd be interested in seeing what one was like. I did not take it out of its wrappings because he told me that ihe tarballs really smell horrible because not only are they made up of oil but also have dead oysters, shellfish, etc rotting in them too. The tarball felt like a big lump of soft modeling clay. It kind of surprised me because I'd thought of oil as a liquid. I don't know what percentage of the spill is made up of these solid tarballs but it seems to me that they would be physically easy to scoop out of the water since they're solid.
 
Blackduiker

Blackduiker said:
I am in no way trying to be overly political in this post, but am concerned about the grave effects suffered by wildlife there. Let's try to keep all comments away from raging debates, and concentrate on the needs of wildlife. Though our hearts go out to the many people that have been gravely effected by deaths, hardships, and loss, there are other sites more appropriate for those discussions.
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Okay people, we're going down the road of debate which this thread was not intended to do. It's not let the mudslinging begin time! We're just showing the effects upon wildlife here. ;)
 
It sickens and saddens me to see birds like pelicans covered in oil. Until there is a vast improvement in technology, the gulf spill will not be the last.
 
Unless the US administration and people really start investing in proper legislation on economic development AND oil prospecting/proliferation, this is a dead end road. Alas, the environment is the only entity - admittedly the one that provides us with resources and life et cetera - that is the real victim here (for years to come). :(
 
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