Aug 25-31, 2010

July 2-12, 2010

June 16-July 2, 2010

June 11-16, 2010

August 25 - 31, 2010 — Oiled Pelican Flaps Chaotically. Dolphin Rots In Surf

August 25 - 31, 2010 — Photos (C) World Animal Awareness Society / Kinship Circle, 2010 — Gulf Oil Spill photos are regularly updated from the field. See our entire photo collection on Flickr CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO VIEW FULL-SIZE PHOTO.

8/31/10: Kinship's Rachel Laskowski and Craig Hill at Audubon Aquarium to check rehabbed turtles.		A display inside Audubon Institute's NOLA Aquarium implies the Gulf is “brought to you by” Big Oil.		Audubon Aquarium displays 3 rehabbed sea turtles on its ground floor. Upstairs, 1 of 2 turtles has died.
Before Deepwater capped the oil leak, turtles were rescued in marshmallow thick oil, inside and out.	Audubon's Meghan Calhoun tells Kinship's Brenda Shoss that the Gulf flows in a current circle with...	oiled animals at the TOP half. If the bottom flow flips to the top, a new wave of oiled animals could arise.
8/30/10: Lafitte, Louisiana — We observe swamplands in Jean Lafitte National Park.	There has been no presence of oil in these Bayou Barataria, Louisiana waterways.	The alligators and other wildlife indigenous to these LA swamps are unaffected by the oil disaster.
8/29/10: At Katrina's 5-year Anniversary, Lower 9th Ward residents do a jazz funteral march for BP too.	8/29/10: Elgin Fields to Clairborne... a crowd gathers on Tennessee St., NOLA Lower 9th Ward...	To celebrate renewal and perseverance from Katrina to the BP oil disaster.
8/29/10: Brad Pitt's ongoing project to build "green homes" brightens New Orleans Lower 9th, an area...	flattened in Katrina. From the French Quarter to the Lower 9th, Katrina Jazz-Blues Vigils bury past horror...	and celebrate hope. Still, a note of desperation about oil-related loss pervades.
8/27/10: We charter a boat, leaving Chauvin, LA into Terrebonne Bay, to explore Raccoon Island and...	Kinship's Rachel Laskowski (lt) arranges the tour, inviting wildlife photographer Darlene Eschete (rt).	Also aboard are Kinship Circle's Craig Hill (lt) and Grady Ballard (rt), director Brenda Shoss' husband.
Our charter boat captain sits with Elijah, Kinship Circle executive director Brenda Shoss' son.	As storm clouds thicken, a few BP oil boom boats head inland. We continue out toward open waters...	8/27/10: At Raccoon Island, hundreds of pelicans are aligned with choreographic precision. White gulls...
point their beaks in unison. We search for birds with signs of oil... We spot a dolphin off Racoon Island...	Her fins still; we coast in to verify death. At 3:57pm, Brenda Shoss notifies NOAA of the dead dolphin's...	GPS points. Kinship's Rachel Laskowski and resident Darlene Eschete look for more oil impacted animals.
NOAA confirms the dolphin's location, to pick up for necropsy. We circle to Coon Point's west end...	On the Gulf side, we see pelicans, terns, gulls, plovers, skimmers...preening, fishing, flying.	One pelican looks odd. He flaps chaotically, yet can't rise from shallow water. His feathers cling in dark clumps...
Kinship's Brenda Shoss tries to report the oiled bird, but phone service fails amid a rising storm.	After a roller-coaster ride on rough sees, Brenda calls in the oiled pelican and dead dolphin.	Crew (from lt): Kinship's Mary Kelly, Cadi Schiffer, photographer Darlene Eschete, Brenda Shoss, Sarah Rose, Rachel Laskowski, Colleen Kessler; (back) boat capaitn, Grady Ballard.
8/24/10: Activist Gregg Hall holds a tar ball on a sand dollar at Pensacola Beach before we interview him.	Pensacola Beach at dawn. Notice oil lines in the erosion point and tan vs white stand on the beach.	Oil in dead crab, Pensacola Beach. Coastal Director PJ Hahn: “We’ve found dead hermit crabs everywhere.”
Pensacola Beach, Gulf Islands National Seashore (Ft. Pickens): Gulls and Terns stand in the tar balls.	Pensacola Beach, FL: Hole where crab pushed out of polluted sand. Oil is buried 2 feet beneath surface.

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July 2 - July 12, 2010 — Turtles Are Rescued And Treated

July 2 - July 12, 2010 — Photos (C) World Animal Awareness Society / Kinship Circle, Chile 2010 — Gulf Oil Spill photos are regularly updated from the field. See our entire photo collection on Flickr CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO VIEW FULL-SIZE PHOTO.

7/8/10: Audubon Center for Research on Endangered Species. Photos of the rescued sea turtles.		Our AEOTGE team gains unique access into Audubon's turtle/dolphin Gulf oil spill rescue.		See turtles and dolphins rescued in the Gulf oil spill. All Eyes On The Gulf Expedition VIDEO
AEOTGE's Tom McPhee and Jon Shurtz interview staff working with oiled sea turtles. More than...	100 oiled turtles are treated here, as of 7/8/10. Oiled Marine Mammals and sea turtles base camp is...	Audobon Aquatic Center at Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center (manatees, sea...
turtles, dolphins). This facility is closed to the public. We hope to unearth answers to rumors about...	turtles burned alive in BP oil-burnoffs and if these endangered turtles will survivie the Gulf disaster.	All photos © World Animal Awareness Society and Kinship Circle — Gulf Oil Disaster, 2010
Audubon Ctr for Research on Endangered Species: Staff tagging and microchipping rescued sea turtle.	All photos © World Animal Awareness Society and Kinship Circle — Gulf Oil Disaster, 2010	Cleanup crews work into the night in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Photo © WA2S.org/Kinship Circle
Waters beyond the containment booms are policed and toured in Alabama.	Bright orange containment booms zigzag for miles along threatened beaches in the Gulf.	Filmmaker and Executive Director of World Animal Awareness Society, Tom McPhee
All photos © World Animal Awareness Society and Kinship Circle — Gulf Oil Disaster, 2010	Gooey tarballs surround a bird's fallen feather in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

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June 16 - July 2, 2010 — For Each Rescued, Hundreds More Aren’t

Black Mangrove Island, LA: An oiled Roseate Spoonbill fights to stay on a boom. We call her in...		but our boat captain can't bear to watch this bird nearly drown. So the bird is caught, brought to...		emergency triage, and then to IBRRC Fort Jackson Rehab Center. This bird will live.
OILED BABIES, Queen Bess Island, Louisiana; Kinship Circle/WA2S.org volunteers find oiled...	baby birds wandering amid adults on contaminated shorelines in Queen Bess Island, LA.	All photos © World Animal Awareness Society and Kinship Circle — Gulf Oil Disaster, 2010
7/2/10: With USFW at an sland off Venice, LA, our team sees two baby nighthawks oddly still. Dead?	No. They're breathing. A nearby containment boom stops crude oil and sheen from washing over them.	The sorrow of a Grand Isle resident is shown in this "graveyard." Some fear the Gulf will be a dead zone.
Kinship's Sister Michael Marie with Washington Post 3-time Pulitzer Prize Photojournalist Carol Guzy.	Barataria Bay, LA: BP contracted cleaning crews work replace dirty boom with clean boom.	Cleaning crews move oily boom on to airboats for disposal, Barataria Bay. © WA2S.org/Kinship Circle
Other victims: Shelters prep for surrenders. This is Baxter. © Kinship Circle, Humane Society Louisiana	Income loss could lead to an influx of abandonment, as seen in the home mortgage crisis.	A St. Bernard Parish shelter has 4 times more surrenders. © Kinship Circle, Humane Society LA
New Orleans shelters offer food pantries and discount med services, to keep pets in their homes.	Kinship's Sister Michael Marie, Bonnie Morrison, and WA2G's Tom McPhee visit NOLA area shelters.	Humane Society of Louisiana, New Orleans. We also check PAWS in Plaquemines, LSPCA and ARNO.
Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center where International Bird Rescue and Research (IBRRC)...	clean oiled birds. Photos in this row by Kinship Circle's Darla Wolak.	All photos © World Animal Awareness Society and Kinship Circle — Gulf Oil Disaster, 2010
Venice, LA, 7/2/10: Our team embeds with US Fish & Wildlife for trip out of Venice to locate oiled wildlife.	Deepwater Horizon Base, Louisiana: Team members participate in an overflight of ground zero with...	the U.S. Coast Guard. The Deepwater rig, oil burnoffs and ships are seen from an open-ended plane.
Kinship Circle volunteer Nora Mario described the view as a “war zone,” with fires burning, ships...	and helicopters swarming the scene of the Deepwater Horizon oil explosion.	Cat Island, 6/24/10: Two baby brown pelicans display their soiled white chests.

June 11 - 16, 2010 — Oil Ashore And Animals Harmed


June 11 - 16, 2010 — Photos (C) World Animal Awareness Society / Kinship Circle, Chile 2010 — Gulf Oil Spill photos are regularly updated from the field. See our entire photo collection on Flickr. CLICK ON ANY THUMBNAIL BELOW TO VIEW LARGE, FULL-SIZE PHOTO.

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