Oil Threatens Curaçao Marine and Coastal Wildlife
Deep Sea News published a guest post
relating the experience of an oil spill in a mangrove area on
the Caribbean Island of
Curaçao. In her post, Dr. Kristen Marhaver shares her thoughts on the impacts of oil on mangrove ecosystems. According to Kristen, following bad wind conditions caused by the tropical storm Isaac, oil from a storage tank at Curaçao's Isla Refinery was pushed into a mangrove forest, severely contaminating habitat and wildlife.
Kristen
is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California at Merced, studying coral reefs on Curaçao.
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Guest Post: Crude oil insults in the Caribbean
Excerpted from - Deep Sea News | Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 | by Kristen Marhaver
"An oil spill in the news is an abstract thing. Though I had seen photos from the Exxon Valdez spill and video from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, I hadn’t prepared to be so deeply insulted by an oil spill in person. Crude oil is the blackest black there is. In a shallow bay in the hot Caribbean sun, it had formed greasy pavements and tar balls almost impossibly goey. It shellacked anything it touched – animal, mineral, or vegetable. I watched a painted-black crab stumble across the ground. Tar balls bobbed between paved-black rocks and the dense underwater branches of mangrove trees, where juvenile fish usually hide from predators. The mangroves’ thin root-like breathing structures poked up above the water surface, slimed with crude and certainly clogged. The arboreal version of black lung. A flock of five flamingos took flight, with black patches on wings where they didn’t belong."
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Story available at: http://deepseanews.com/2012/08/guest-post-crude-oil-insults-in-the-caribbean/
- Posted by Sven Stadtmann, GRID-Arendal
This is one fact that ruins all the habitat daily. Ecosystem is in a permanent modification, and people is aware of the negative fact, and things that will slowly ruin it. What can be done, instead talking, is making big campaings to help the environement, colect everything cause pollution for the planet, and try to keep the balance to a positive direction.
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