It breaks my heart to hear about wildlife suffering due to the BP oil spill. Wildlife rescues are a challenge and after reading the article, ”Wildlife rescue effort is a challenge in the gulf“, in the Los Angeles Times, I have a better understanding of how hard it is to rescue wildlife.
According to the article, each morning wildlife teams scour the region using information gleaned from satellite images of the oil slick, knowledge of bird colonies’ expected locations, and from reports at a central command center of possible wildlife in distress. They are among an army of hundreds, from state, federal and environmental organizations, spread out across the gulf.
The search is extremely difficult as temperatures are in the 90s and, despite technology, the work still depends on people spotting struggling wildlife through binoculars. I never imagined the work was this labor intensive.
It’s impossible to keep wildlife away from the oil as it moves, said Rhonda Murgatroyd, one of the managing directors of the wildlife rescue efforts.
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