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Home U.S. World Entertainment Sports Business Health Science Technology Politics Offbeat Environment Travel News Articles Animal Deaths From Oil Spill Only Now Becoming Known Email Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! ShareThis June 9, 2010 1:36 p.m. EST Topics: human interest, environmental cleanup, disaster and accident, environmental issue, pollution, animal, United States Ayinde O. Chase - AHN News Editor Miami, FL, United States (AHN) - Seven weeks and 51 days into the oil spill disasters and and only recently have the marine life affected by the April 2 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion now been widely seen. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is posting daily online provided by information received from NOAA, rehabilitation centers, and organizations working with BP to handle the cleanup. A June 7th update from the organization is reporting 594 birds, 250 sea turtles, and 30 mammals as perishing directly as a result from the oil spill in addition to currently 466 oil-slicked but alive birds, turtles, and mammals. Animals that undergo treatment and clean up efforts may survive however there long term effects remain unknown as to what oil absorption and ingestion will do to them. One reason many speculate for photos and accounts of dead animals is not reaching the mainstream media is largely due to BP’s wildlife rescue operations. The oil giant has contracted out relief efforts to to local wildlife organizations, such as the Autobahn Society and Tri-State Bird Rescue. Kelly Overton, director of People Protecting Animals & Their Habitats (PATH Inc.) says, “While these are competent organizations, BP is keeping media exposure to a minimum by forcing the organizations to sign non-disclosures, forbidding them from taking photos of the cleanup, and prohibiting them from speaking with the press.” These organizations may have their hands bound and mouths shut due to contractual obligations however that is not stopping many other organizations going to the media in an attempt rally a public outcry over the harrowing ecological and financial disaster that is showing its effects faster than the still looming underwater plumes of oil. Under pressure from scientists recruited by the government BP this week has finally released hi-res images of the gushing oil well to further give scientists a better scope at the amount of oil leaking, being captured and just how many other substances are deluging the Gulf as a result of the spill. The footage which requires being physically transmitted since the signal can not be broadcast has taken weeks of requests and governmental pressure to finally coerce the oil giant into compliance. While at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christopher Jones highlighted Tony Hayward's recent remark that he wants his "life back." Many found Hayward's comment extremely insensitive and a telltale sign that the company truly hasn't grasped the wide reaching effects of the disaster that some feel was caused by cost cutting measures and profit motivation ahead of safety, security and good business practices. "Mr. Hayward, I want my brother's life back," Jones said. "We will never get [his] life back." Furthermore initial water samples from various points on the Florida coasts have confirmed low concentrations of subsea oil from the ruptured wellhead, said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This news confirms what many had already suspected and now gives further evidence that pieces of the Gulf oil slick are breaking off and beginning to enter the loop current, possibly propelling tar balls towards beaches in the Bahamas and South Florida over the next several weeks. Currently news of the northern Gulf Coast dominate the headlines but soon Freeport Grand Bahama Island, even Nassau could be impacted by drifting oil pieces caught in the Gulf Stream current, which flows around the tip of Florida and passes along the western end of the Bahamas. With financial losses mounting among hoteliers, fishermen and others whose livelihoods have been derailed by the spill, frustration is escalating at an ever quickening pace along the Gulf Coast. Kelby Linn, a real estate agent and Chamber of Commerce official on Alabama's Dauphin Island told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee Monday that the amount of money BP has paid local residents for their losses has typically been about $5,000, a sum he dismissed as "a marketing ploy." But this “marketing ploy” is just the tip of the cash iceberg for BP if losses continue to mount and then begin extending outside of the immediate impact zone and seep into the aforementioned loop current affecting other regions and other countries. Withstanding the financial toll that at the very least could reach the billions of dollars but still the ecological finality of BP's accident could have permanent consequences for endangered species. Wildlife organizations are especially fearful about a handful of endangered or nearly endangered species in the immediate affected zone. Animals such as the brown pelican, nearly extinct in the 1960’s and particularly vulnerable to oil, the 400 Florida manatees that migrate annually to Louisiana in the summer, and the nearly extinct Kemp’s Ridley turtles that rely on the Gulf as its sole breeding ground. Other animals at risk are the Atlantic Bluefin tuna, a endangered deepwater fish which breeds near the source of the gushing well, and 28 species of dolphin and whale living in the Gulf, including a distinct population of 300 sperm whale known to gather around the edge of the Mississippi Canyon, sadly which is near the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Copyright © 2003 - 2010 AHN - All rights reserved.Redistribution, republication. syndication, rewriting or broadcast is prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN.License AHN news for your website, business, digital signage network or publication. 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