MooPig Site Review :: "Oil Spilling Out 5,000 Barrels a Day into Gulf of Mexico -- YIKES!"

Who's Who on a Biologist's BIO-List?
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EXCERPT | By Ashley Hayes, CNN April 30, 2010 HERE
" ...More than 400 species are threatened by the spill, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Thursday, citing the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

"When you stop and begin considering everything that this could impact, it really is stunning," Karen Foote, biologist administrator with the department, told the newspaper.

" ...According to a 1998 study by Louisiana State University, more than 500 million birds fly over the Gulf and enter the United States along coastal areas in Louisiana and Texas each spring.

The barrier islands east of Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain have still not recovered from the blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bossart said, and a spill such as this one could seriously threaten their recovery.

' ..."I think at this point it would be wrong to say it's catastrophic, because it really hasn't hit any area except out in the Gulf proper," he said. But "it's certainly a very serious thing" that could pose a long-term environmental challenge.'

[(Sources Unknown) Pictured here are Gulf Coast animals to be affected by oil spills: from plankton to bobcats, .... Yes, Loggerhead Turtles too ... No joke.]

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