Animals Oil Spill: Mississippi Center Prepares To Take In Sea Mammals

GULFPORT, Miss. — A marine wildlife rehabilitation center in Mississippi is gearing up to take in possibly hundreds of oily sea mammals from Texas to Florida.

The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport has surgery, necropsy and exam rooms, walk-in freezers full of frozen fish for food, X-ray and ultrasound machines and plenty of medicine. The nonprofit facility also has eight large pools, which have been cleaned and prepared to handle sea turtles, manatees and dolphins.

Center director Dr. Moby Solangi said Friday the site will be "ground zero" for injured marine mammals.

Solangi said there are roughly up to 5,000 dolphins in the Gulf area between the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts and the oil rig, many giving birth right now.

Comments

[Fancy Cat]

10:49 PM on 05/13/2010

Thanks for the link to donate I donated a small amount to help out with the wildlife.

It is time for the Venus Project. Change how we live totally. Remove the causes of such things.

TheVenusProject.com TheZeitgeistmovement.com

[Stephanie Kuwasaki]

09:42 PM on 04/30/2010

Here's a link to the IMMS donation page: http://www.imms.org/donate.php. Monetary donations can be made thru Paypal at the bottom of the page. They're gonna need all the help they can get!

[Lisa Stretten]

09:21 PM on 04/30/2010

The National Wildlife Federation is taking donations to help the wild life effected in this disaster.

https://online.nwf.org/site/Donation2?df_id=16662&16662.donation=form1

Please do whatever you can!!

[Lisa Stretten]

09:16 PM on 04/30/2010

I want to donate to this organization, HP could you post a link to the donations page?