{"id":1059,"date":"2010-06-07T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2010-06-07T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:31:27","slug":"post-from-louisiana-oiled-wildlife-rescue-operations-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/06\/07\/post-from-louisiana-oiled-wildlife-rescue-operations-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Post from Louisiana: Oiled wildlife rescue operations increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 7th, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

This post was received from a “friend of the wilderness” who wishes not to be identified, but tells a revealing story about how oiled seabirds are treated in Louisiana.<\/em>\u00a0 DV<\/p>\n

I returned from Ft. Jackson after days with Tri-State and IBRRC.\u00a0 Very impressive, hard-working and organized groups I might add.\u00a0 They were contracted by BP to handle the oiled wildlife (some exceptions like sea-turtles, dolphins etc).\u00a0<\/p>\n

I will tell you that when I arrived last Monday morning there had been about 52 birds processed to date (excuse the word ‘process’ – I couldn’t think of another).\u00a0 Some\u00a0 wild guesses would be that they had maybe 25 still there and 14 of those were taken on Saturday by Fish and Wildlife to be released somewhere in Florida. .. the turn around time being around 10 days.
\n\u00a0
\nThat was the entire spill total after what, 5 weeks?\u00a0 Something seemed very wrong, at least to us few volunteers (the rest were all staff from California, Delaware and elsewhere).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But…..
\n\u00a0I think it was Thursday night……….they started coming by truck, boat and helicopter.\u00a0 It was like MASH.
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the time I left last night (Sunday night) there were over 300 badly oiled birds logged, mostly pelicans, (and during their nesting season).\u00a0 They are the lucky ones.\u00a0 The staff was busy building new cages, adapting the physical plant to accommodate the space needed and bringing in more staff and volunteers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Think of over 300 mostly pelicans, badly oiled or recuperating, in one place.\u00a0 Their fish needs alone are staggering.
\n\u00a0
\nIt was very hard work.\u00a0 If I were 30 again I would still be there.\u00a0 But I am going back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 7th, 2010 This post was received from a “friend of the wilderness” who wishes not to be identified, but tells a revealing story about how oiled seabirds are treated in Louisiana.\u00a0 DV I returned from Ft. Jackson after days with Tri-State and IBRRC.\u00a0 Very impressive, hard-working and organized groups I might add.\u00a0 They were … Continue reading Post from Louisiana: Oiled wildlife rescue operations increase<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}