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Tonight on World news. Oil on shore. The oil slick makes landfall. The race to save the wildlife begins. From ABC News, this is ABC World news with Diane Sawyer. Good evening. Tonight the oil is on the shore of America’s Gulf Coast and a lot more is on the way. And remember one fifth of the nation’s sea food comes from these waters, shrimp, oysters.And 1200 people are standing by to try to save the wild life, too. Sam Champion is in a commercial channel down in the gulf. Sam?

 

Diane? This is Tiger Pass, clean water that shrimp boats take straight into the gulf which is the scene of one of the most unusual oil spills in history. No one knows how big it’s going to get or will it will end,when it will end because that uncapped well keeps pouring oil right into the gulf. There’s been another question for a few days now and that’s will that oil get into the protected wildlife behind us and harm any other wildlife there, well, today that question was answered.

 

The first environmental casualty of gulf oil spill was found today. This northern gannet부비새류 is supposed to be white. But it was discovered in open water covered in oil. He’s now being cared for and cleaned at an emergency center set up to take care of wildlife injured in the gulf. Rescue workers know he’s only the first. Birds are not the only endangered animals in the Gulf of Mexico. The wetlands of the gulf are some of the most productive in the country. And scientists fear that habitat in the wildlife that supports are in imminent danger of environmental catastrophe.

 

Hardest to recover from because the wetlands are made of mud. If the oil gets into the mud, there is no way to get in and clean it. Machinery is too heavy. And that would further destroy the habitat. Experts say the oil could be there for 10-20 years releasing lethal chemicals. In Alaska, to this day, they are still cleaning up after the remnants잔존물 of the Exxon Valdez disaster.

 

20% of the seafood caught in the United States comes from these Gulf wetlands. A nursery ground for a wide variety of fish, shrimp and crab. Billions of dollars of seafood are threatened with contamination and that could make it unsafe for human consumption for years to come. People we talked to today say they love these waters and they depend on them for their livelihood. They also tell us they’re not quite sure, they believe the government will protect them.

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