Dakotalola
War Child
I’m sure everyone has seen or at least heard of the large numbers of birds found yesterday drenched in oil, completely covered and causing them to have trouble breathing and suffocating. Some were too far gone to save. The International Bird Rescue Center does have some of the birds and they're working to clean them today. Here's a recent blog from the Director. http://intbirdrescue.blogspot.com/
The Audubon Society in Louisiana is one of the official responders to the disaster. They have a hotline for people to call with locations of found oiled birds, and they call the local rescue /responders in that area to go out and find the birds for cleaning. They are actively involved in finding and cleaning birds.
They check their hotline every hour. I called them last night at 10:30 pm and got a live person. They’re dedicated to helping.
Here’s their site for donations specifically for the oil disaster response. They will be the ones trying to clean and restore the birds' habitats which are also being destroyed.
https://loon.audubon.org/payment/donate/OILSPILL10.html
Also note that Dawn’s Everyday Wildlife Champions charitable arm has a Facebook page with updates on what they’re doing (Trucks with loads of Dawn detergent have been going to the region from their Kentucky warehouse and they have people on the ground cleaning birds.)
Note that if you buy DAWN, you have to go online and enter the activation code for the $1/bottle donation to kick in. It doesn’t happen automatically when you just buy a bottle. Where to redeem the Dawn code: http://www.dawn-dish.com/en_US/savingwildlife/home.do
They have a $500k limit, and are up to $417k now. They need to be petitioned to raise that cap.
I can’t even look at the photos, it’s heartbreaking. And this is only the beginning. I’m afraid this will wipe out the last of the 300 endangered brown pelicans, and decimate the manatee population when it reaches around Florida. This is headed up the east coast by July, so it wont hurt to contact state reps now, and demand what they plan to have in place. The oil will travel up to 100 miles per day once it's in the Gulf current. The projected path is for it to completely surround Florida, go up the east coast to NC, then head out to sea, where it'll no doubt create more havoc when it reachs Europe.
Local Audubons will also have to deal with migrating falcons who will eat semi oiled birds that can still fly, but are slower than others. Then we have falcons who’ve ingested oil. This is only the start of entire ecosystems being destroyed.
Please pass along the donation information to friends, on your Facebook or Twitter pages-wherever, just to get the word out, and don’t forget to check if you have a company match which can double what you give.
Thanks for reading and helping,
Kim
The Audubon Society in Louisiana is one of the official responders to the disaster. They have a hotline for people to call with locations of found oiled birds, and they call the local rescue /responders in that area to go out and find the birds for cleaning. They are actively involved in finding and cleaning birds.
They check their hotline every hour. I called them last night at 10:30 pm and got a live person. They’re dedicated to helping.
Here’s their site for donations specifically for the oil disaster response. They will be the ones trying to clean and restore the birds' habitats which are also being destroyed.
https://loon.audubon.org/payment/donate/OILSPILL10.html
Also note that Dawn’s Everyday Wildlife Champions charitable arm has a Facebook page with updates on what they’re doing (Trucks with loads of Dawn detergent have been going to the region from their Kentucky warehouse and they have people on the ground cleaning birds.)
Note that if you buy DAWN, you have to go online and enter the activation code for the $1/bottle donation to kick in. It doesn’t happen automatically when you just buy a bottle. Where to redeem the Dawn code: http://www.dawn-dish.com/en_US/savingwildlife/home.do
They have a $500k limit, and are up to $417k now. They need to be petitioned to raise that cap.
I can’t even look at the photos, it’s heartbreaking. And this is only the beginning. I’m afraid this will wipe out the last of the 300 endangered brown pelicans, and decimate the manatee population when it reaches around Florida. This is headed up the east coast by July, so it wont hurt to contact state reps now, and demand what they plan to have in place. The oil will travel up to 100 miles per day once it's in the Gulf current. The projected path is for it to completely surround Florida, go up the east coast to NC, then head out to sea, where it'll no doubt create more havoc when it reachs Europe.
Local Audubons will also have to deal with migrating falcons who will eat semi oiled birds that can still fly, but are slower than others. Then we have falcons who’ve ingested oil. This is only the start of entire ecosystems being destroyed.
Please pass along the donation information to friends, on your Facebook or Twitter pages-wherever, just to get the word out, and don’t forget to check if you have a company match which can double what you give.
Thanks for reading and helping,
Kim
. Thanks for the information.
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