Filed under: alternative fuels, Environment, Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, oil spill, pollution, wildlife | Tags: Kemp's Ridley, National Park Service, Oil spill, Sea turtle
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“Yesterday, as part of the effort to save sea turtle hatchlings from the BP oil spill, the first Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nest was excavated from a national park area. This nest of 89 eggs was located on the south side of Fort Pickens Road in the Florida district of Gulf Islands National Seashore.
“The excavation and relocation of a sea turtle nest to another site to be hatched and released is unprecedented for the National Park Service,” said Acting Seashore Superintendent Nina Kelson. “It is especially significant as this is a Kemp’s ridley nest, the species that is the rarest of all the endangered sea turtles found along the Gulf coast.” Read more.
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Filed under: alternative energy, alternative fuels, Environment, Green, oil spill, pollution, wildlife | Tags: dolphins, marine life, nature, Oil spill
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“Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water off Florida beaches, like forest animals fleeing a fire. 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.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange phenomena.
Fish and other wildlife seem to be fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast in a trend that some researchers see as a potentially troubling sign.
The animals’ presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily be devoured by predators.
“A parallel would be: Why are the wildlife running to the edge of a forest on fire? There will be a lot of fish, sharks, turtles trying to get out of this water they detect is not suitable,” said Larry Crowder, a Duke University marine biologist.” Read more.
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“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” – Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
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Filed under: oil spill, pollution, wildlife | Tags: Add new tag, BP, gulf oil spill, Oil spill
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Obama Says He’s “Furious” about Gulf Oil Spill but His Job Isn’t …
ABC News’ Karen Travers reports: Amidst criticism that he has not shown enough anger about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama said today that he was “furious” about the situation but that his job is to.
Publish Date: 06/03/2010 15:43
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Gulf Oil Spill: Feds Halt New Drilling In Gulf
WASHINGTON — The federal government slapped BP with a $69 million bill Thursday to cover initial costs of responding to the largest oil spill in US history. An angry President Barack Obama said he was convinced that BP has not moved …
Publish Date: 06/03/2010 12:08
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Don Young: Gulf Oil Spill ‘Not An Environmental Disaster’
Don’t worry about the oil spilling into the Gulf, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) says, because the worst spill in US history is “not an environmental disaster,” just nature taking its course. “This is not an environmental disaster, …
Publish Date: 06/03/2010 11:02
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Filed under: ecology, Environment, wildlife | Tags: California State Parks, ecology
Good news! The list of California State Park closures is dwindling, thanks perhaps, to the efforts of many people like you.
Read this California State Parks article here.
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One of the greatest wildlife shows is a few short miles off the Southern California coast.
The island of San Miguel in the Channel Islands National Park is one of the U.S. National Parks System’s best kept secrets. Tens of thousands of sea mammals before your eyes – and ears. Check out this wildlife article.
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Filed under: ecology, Environment, wildlife | Tags: cougar, outdoors, wilderness
Cougars are an important part of the ecology. We should treasure them.
When I was a kid, the Cougar Killer used to come to our school and show us grainy movies of killing these “terrible pests”. He was our hero.
I don’t think the way I did when I was a kid. We must protect biodiversity.
Watch this video of a darling orphaned cougar cub.
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