The Gulf wildlife death toll rises while the oil still flows on (video)

HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell recently reported on the "apocalypse [that] continues to wreak havoc in the Gulf Coast," and its impact on wildlife on her show Issues. She interviewed guest Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the U.S. Humane Society.


Pacelle told Velez-Mitchell: "For every one [animal] coming into the wildlife care centers, there could be 100, 200, 500 oiled animals who are not getting spotted and pulled out of that deadly environment and brought to one of these [animal relief] centers"


Though Velez-Mitchell (who is also a big supporter of animal rights) is very dramatic in her reporting, the statistics reported and images being shown are both alarming and heartbreaking. Watch the video below.




Information via Huffington Post.

It's day 64 of this catastrophe in the Gulf, the leak continues to gush on at an estimated 60,000 barrels a day and there still seems to be no end in sight.

The latest reports on the oiled wildlife toll is that the numbers are quickly rising, with either not enough ships able to reach the animals in the affected areas or the fact that many of the ones that have been rescued simply aren't surviving.

The oil spill has claimed over 800 birds, 350+ sea turtles, a sperm whale who ventured too close to the damaged well, and, of course, the countless other sea creatures destroyed due to the spill. CBS reported that of the over 500 sea turtles that have been rescued, only 1 in 5 survive.

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