By Maria Cheng And Christina Okello, Associated Press WritersThu Jun 17, 7:56 pm ET PARIS – The traders sell an array of bushmeat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupine. But this isn’t a roadside market in Africa — it’s the heart of Paris, where a new study has found more than five tons of […]
So-called burn boxes are torching oil from the water’s surface at the sacrifice of turtles, crabs, sea slugs and other sea life. By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles TimesJune 17, 2010 Reporting from the Gulf of Mexico — Here on the open ocean, 12 miles from ground zero of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the gulf […]
Disease and shortage of food may afflict Gulf fish and fowl for years By SARAH NETTERGRAND ISLE, La. June 17, 2010 Oiled birds may be cleaned up and beaches may be scrubbed, but the lingering affect of the poisonous gunk from the BP oil spill may be generations of wildife that is riddled with disease […]
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again. By JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Writers GULF […]
Fort Jackson, Louisiana (AFP) June 10, 2010 – Most oil-struck birds and turtles will die alone and uncounted for at sea or buried in coastal wetlands, amid warnings the true toll from the Gulf of Mexico spill may never be known. “Historically, they estimate that 10 percent of (oiled) birds are found,” said Rebecca Dunne, […]
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers – Fri Jun 11, 7:21 pm ET GRAND ISLE, La. – The astonishing news that the oil leak at the bottom of the sea may be twice as big as previously thought could have major repercussions for both the environment and BP’s financial health, killing […]
By The Associated PressJune 05, 2010, 4:15PM The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins […]
By Jenny Hurwitz, The Times-Picayune May 21, 2010, 12:07PM Government officials in Grand Isle are closing all beaches until further notice, citing the fact that oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill is washing up on the shore. “They’re starting to see dead wildlife,” said Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts. Roberts said there is more […]
Britain’s wildlife is being pushed to “the brink of a crisis” as sub-zero temperatures continue to grip the nation, according to conservationists. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is organising emergency feeding of several threatened species, including bitterns and cirl buntings. The RSPB is also asking people to feed garden birds, which […]
