Sucked Into The Black Hole Of Oil



Fish covered by oil and dead



Bird dead and covered in oil



Oil covered sea turtle



Sperm Whale dead because of oil



Oil causes marine animals and birds so much grief. The above pictures show you just how bad oil spills are for animals. The oil sticks to the aquatic animals and birds bodies and over time it gets sticker. This makes it very hard for them to survive and recover. Most oil floats on top of the water. Fish are attracted to the oil thinking it is food.  Then birds will want to eat the fish, sometimes having to dive through the oil slick. Digesting the fish that ate the oil and getting covered in it themselves. Larger fish and mammals also eat the small fish with oil in them. The oil causes a chain reaction. First harming the small fish then the larger fish and birds, then those at the top of the food chain like dolphins and sharks. Also there are humans that eat aquatic animals. There can be contaminated animals we are eating and we wouldn’t know about it. Oil spills can cause some plant life to die off as well. But most are lucky enough to recover after spills. Aquatic life gets hit really hard by oil spills. We need to figure out a way to prevent spills because we humans are going to destroy our oceans and everything in them one day.  ~Chelsea

ummmm Oil Duck, Oil Duck, Oil Duck, Oil Goose

Oil spilt in the water has caused an enormous disruption in the circle of life and the food chain, this is a huge crisis and isn't right at all animals were living quiet and peacefully but man kind has disturbed the forces of nature in their defense. I feel that unless they are looking for oil where there is no wildlife or lakes/ rivers should be illegalized but that is only my opinion.

Trenton

Oil Spills & the Animals

Penguin caught in an oil spill

Oil can cause a lot of damage to both animals and the ecosystem. In this picture it is of a penguin that was caught into an oil spill and a person is trying to clean and take all the oil off the bird. Oil can damage all the animals by the weight of the liquid can bring the animals down, for example ducks and birds when they go for a swim and they swim around in the oil. When they go to take off and fly to the land the oil can make it much harder to flap their wings and can get taken under the water struggling to get back up. Oil damages the beaches and the oceans. The oil toxins the fish and sea creatures which can contaminate them and poison them. Oil spills can also cause problems to jobs like fish and shrimp industries because the oil can kill them. Without any shrimp/fish it puts the businesses out of business. If you worked in a fish/ shrimp industry you could see how it would put you out of business and then cause your family to suffer because you would not have money for food, shelter or hydro. That would be a horrible thing to go through.

~Rebecca

Dug Up,Destroying, Deadbolted & Dieing

How much abuse can our natural resouces take. This website explains the consequences we will surely face in the future because of our carelessness,  http://dieoff.org/page116.htm. We seem locked in our own little world and we deadbolt everything we dont think we have anything to do with. We dug our oil from our earth, destroying habitats and clymaxing to the point of killing it completely. We can watch it sink but where into? Our oceans, polluting land, ruining ecosystems, killing creatures along with our resource and all we can do is watch as it pulls us down farther and farther. Pushing us us past the dangers of actually trying to make a difference! What dangers are their really, other then your lack of consideration? The websites states that soon we will be wihtout oil at are. Think throught the things you will lose. The chain of events that may happen, not being able to use your car or truck, not able to build a house or run a company, the loss of jobs and profit are only the half of it and all we do is watch.

Baffled Babies Born

(Newly Hatched Baby Bird)

This is a picture of a baby bird that just hatched during the oil spill, Not only is this bird in danger of getting coated in oil but the food he is going to get from his mother (if she is still alive) will get food from the ocean ( most likely fish) and will be contaminated, so the baby could get sick and die from the oil. If I were the mother of that bird I would take my babie away some where safe where he wont get into the icky oil.
-brennan

In this picture, Sponge Bob was caught in a oil spill. I feel bad for him because it is not his fault that people

working with oil were to stupid to realize that they were going to have a oil spill. Like Fiona said in her post, people should fly oil rather then ship it from place to place. Most of the times they ship it is sinks and kills thousands. I think this is something that can easily be prevented and should end today.

-CHASE

Why did the Oil have to spill?

Why did they have to have an oil spill... It is killing all of the animals and other living creaters that live in the water or just even live on the beach. If the oil keeps getting spilled in the ocean then more things are dying and some people are even loosing there jobs because the fish are getting caught in the oil...and some people eat the fish that the people are catching because they need food to eat. So I really think that we should try and stop iol spills before it happens again.

ash