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Since last Wednesday, November 7, 2007, there has been some more than 58,000 gallons of bunker oil spilled in the San Francisco Bay because of human error when a Cosco Busan container ship hit the protective bumper around the second tower of the bay bridge. This has been a worst spill in last twenty years. Because of the oil in the water, the wildlife in the bay and the ecosystem has been affected in worst possible manner and the food chain has also been contaminated with the extremely harmful chemicals.
It is very sad to know that professionals who are given such high responsibility do not take it seriously and cause troubles that not only affect themselves but so many other lives around them. There is no way this harm can be undone but there are ways to help.
Want to help? Click for more info: http://www.baykeeper.org/
Some tips from the Oiled Wildlife Care Network:
Oiled Wildlife Care Network - Call (800) 228-4544. Team members require specific training.
If you see oiled wildlife, don't approach it or pick it up. Instead, report it by calling (877) 823-6926 or (415) 701-2311 and ask for a search and collection team to come to the area. Teams are going out frequently.
If you've already collected an oiled bird, record the name of the beach and the time and the date it was collected. Wear Nitrile gloves (not latex). Put the birds in paper (not plastic) bags. Put only one bird in a bag.
To report oil sightings: Call (985) 781-0804.
3 comments:
Have you seen "The Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. The statistics are astonishing.
He has to climb up the ladder to show one of the graphs during his presentation.
It's worth watching.
hey kanan .. u come out wid varied topics and supplement it with various pictures by ppl from flickr.. great going..
Kumar, no, I haven't see it yet but I did read about it. I didn't have guts to see it honestly. It seems to be very scary. There's enough worries in the world already that I'm aware of so didn't wait to add more to it!
Chinmai, thanks. Just wanted to share it with readers for the sake of awareness/knowledge. Even your blog is very interesting.. for me it is like mind workout. :)
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