An Ode to Ocean Life

I saw some footage today of a young dolphin smothered in oil and was in a holding cage and I was LIVID... they were transporting it to get medical attention, but the look in its eyes and the way it held its body, so rigid, was unforgettable ... I welled up with tears and felt literally SICK, you could see and feel that he/she was COMPLETELY confused, terrified and bewildered ... what a CRIME these oil spills are! BTW I gave you 5 stars OP! There are those of us out here who, like yourself, care deeply. Unfortuantely, just not enough!!

Don't worry I don't as the truth is mankind is out of balence with the world and its easy to see that.

i do

Thank you for your post. You help relay the message I am trying to convey. 5 stars for you in return.

HAHAHA you pussy. Dead dolphins are awesome.

Your wasting your time, you'll not get a bite from me.

wundubar

I can't watch such things myself without becoming so angry at mankind and how selfish we have become and uncaring for life.

Makes me think of the words of Chief Seattle

The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother.

If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Sorry to snip so much of your post Fhirinne.

But yes. We are merely a strand. We are only a part of it like everything else is a part of it. I know people aren't reading the same book as me, and I have no problem with that. I am one voice in a choir of many. (and it's not just human voices that have input).

Thank you for the bumps ;)

You better hurry.
There may come a time when humans are not longer able to do that.

beautiful vid FC : (

Thanks for the bumps guys

And the caring.....

thank you

[link to www.nydailynews.com]

Scientists say the worst is yet to come for Gulf Coast animals exposed to the devastating oil spill.

The full extent of the devastation won't be seen until the oil has washed ashore, which could happen Sunday or Monday.

So far there have been no confirmed animal deaths, but that won't last, said Michael Ziccardi, director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network in California, who traveled to the Gulf Coast to oversee wildlife rescue teams.

"We hope the number is not catastrophic," he said. "We're hoping for the best but planning for the worst."

The animals threatened most by the spill are bluefin tuna, sea turtles, brown pelicans, shrimp and sharks.

Oil seeps into birds' feathers and impairs body insulation, exposing them to cold and making it difficult for them to move. They also wind up ingesting oil, which tears up their digestive tracks.

"There are certain songbirds and shorebirds that are going through their peak migratory period," Ziccardi said, pointing out that the spill came at a terrible time of year. "There are other birds for which this is a nesting and egg-laying period."

Turtles are also in the process of nesting in the gulf, he said, and bluefin are in the early stages of the spawning season.

The world's most endangered sea turtle, the Kemp's Ridley, only nests in the western Gulf. One of their major feeding grounds is in the area of the oil spill, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

"Kemp's Ridley turtles' numbers have been reduced over a long period of time, and here they are being battered again," said Richard Page, an oceans campaigner with the environmental group Greenpeace. "It's the most endangered species of sea turtle that there is, and they'll be ingesting oil and toxins. I'm sure there will be deaths."

But until oil reaches the shore, all scientists can do is wait.

"It's really only going to be clear in the coming days because there are a lot of unknowns," said Paul Kelway, a regional manager of the International Bird Rescue Research Center, which sent a team to Louisiana.

"All we can do is prepare these rescue facilities and get staff trained and be ready to help," he said.With News Wire Services

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Fucking awesome! GET WORSE AND WORSE GULF OIL SPILL!

they have already started washing ashore : (

GULFPORT, Miss. — At least 20 sea turtles have been found dead this weekend along a 30-mile stretch of Mississippi beaches from Biloxi to Bay St. Louis.

While wildlife officials can't say with certainty the turtles, some endangered, died as a result of the oil spill, the number concerns them.

Moby Solangi, director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss., said Sunday this is typically the time of year when turtles wash up on shore.

Solangi says even though no oil appears to be on the turtles, they may still have been sickened by consuming oil-coated fish. He says that won't be clear until necropsies are performed on Monday.

Some of the dead reptiles are endangered Kemps ridley turtles
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Sadness for creatures who did not deserve to take the brunt of man's greed and thoughtlessness.