Oil Spill Animals

Nesting Turtles Offer Clues On Oil Spill's Impact

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 08.01.2011

PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, Texas (AP) -- Nearly hidden by brownish sand, the Kemps ridley sea turtle digging furiously with her back flippers as ...

More Gulf Sea Turtles Died Following Oil Spill Than Any Period In Last 2 Decades

AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 05.25.2011

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — More sea turtles were killed or injured in the Gulf of Mexico in the months following the BP oil spill than in any simil...

Animal Rehab Centers Still Have Hands Full In Wake Of Oil Spill

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW ORLEANS — A baby sea turtle escaped from the jaws of a shark, only to get stuck in oil spilled from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico. A young...

Studying Oil Spill Effects On Falcons May Reveal Health Of Lower Gulf Species

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Once nearly wiped from the wild in North America by widespread pesticide use, Peregrine falcons have rebounded acros...

Dead Animals Are Exhibit A In Oil Spill Investigation

AP | PHUONG LE | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW ORLEANS — Dead birds are wrapped in foil or paper, then sealed in plastic bags to avoid cross contamination. Dolphin tissue samples and dead...

Oil Spill Animals: Zoos And Aquariums Are On Alert

The New York Times | SINDYA BHANOO | Posted 05.25.2011

Thirty-two national wildlife refuges are at risk because of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They span five states -- Alabama, Louisiana, Flori...

Procter & Gamble Ships Dawn Dishwasing Liquid To Clean Gulf Animals

AP | DAN SEWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

CINCINNATI — Procter & Gamble Co. says it has rushed 1,000 bottles of Dawn dishwashing liquid to the Gulf of Mexico region to help clean wildlif...

Saving Turtles From An Oily 'Certain Doom;' MASSIVE Relocation Of 70,000 Eggs Begins

Posted 05.25.2011

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- An effort to save thousands of sea turtle hatchlings from dying in the oily Gulf of Mexico will begin in the coming wee...

WaPo 'On Faith': Animal Rights: God's Creation, Our Responsibility

The Washington Post | Janet Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Whether animals have consciousness, souls, rights or sacrifice is irrelevant in the face of the fact that animals are God's good creation, which we ar...

Former EPA Chief On Gulf Oil Spill: 'It's Going To Blow The Record Books Up'

Posted 05.25.2011

GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) -- The astonishing news that the oil leak at the bottom of the sea may be twice as big as previously thought could have major rep...

Gulf Oil Spill: Cleaning Animals Largely Futile, Scientist Says

AP | JOHN FLESHER and NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

FORT JACKSON, La. — Rescuers gently washing the goo from pelicans make for some of the few hopeful images from the disaster on the Gulf of Mexic...

Gulf Oil Spill: Slick-Coated Animals Struggle And Die As 'Wildlife Apocalypse' Becomes Reality

Posted 05.25.2011

ON BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) -- The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pe...