Oil Slick Now Threatens 60 Percent of America's Tidal Marshes

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Kevin Grandia

Managing Editor of DeSmogBlog
Posted: June 17, 2010 06:27 PM

BP Oil Slick Now Threatens 60 Percent of America's Tidal Marshes

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The site of the initial explosion that resulted in the BP oil disaster is within the boundaries of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecoregion which as described by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation as a marine protected area that:

"... contains over 60 percent of the tidal marshes of the United States, freshwater inputs from thirty-seven major rivers, numerous nursery habitats for fish and the Flower Gardens Banks."

The Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecoregion contains numerous species at risk, many of which we have seen severely effected by oil contamination already, including:

* Kemp's Ridley turtles
* Loggerhead turtles
* Alabama Shad
* Dwarf Seahorses, and
* Sand Tiger sharks

The oil slick is also very close to entering the Southern Gulf of Mexico Marine Ecoregion, which is described as containing:

"Habitats such as coastal lagoons, estuaries, and dunes to mangroves, seagrass beds and some coral reefs help to support the 1,000 plus species of fishes that occur in the Gulf of Mexico. "

This ecoregion also contains many species at risk, including:

* Manatee
* Maya octopus
* Great White shark
* Bull shark, and
* Atlantic Manta Ray

A third Marine Ecoregion, the South Florida/Bahamian Atlantic, is also under threat of contamination by the oil slick and is situated about 150 miles South East.

mosquitoes. Somebody ought to get PETA on this right away.

Every plant and microbial animal has great value as a whole. Life is interconnected, one creature needs the next to live.

It doesn't mean much to save a creature only to have it's food source to be extinct or some crucial plant or other animal that allows it to reproduce.

Or what about similar processes to pollination like how we depend on bees, bats, and birds to allow the plants we depend on here on land? You know the ton of interactions that you don't see and that even top scientist don't know about?

Extinctions and depleted stocks are no joke. Things like corral are crucial.

I'm inclined not to feed that sort of comment, but what you say is perfect and correct.

the US would be invading somebody's ass.

Kill Capitalism

because they are bad people who endanger America.
:sarcasm:

good video,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZEM6EdP-g&feature=player_embedded