I hope this legal action proves to be a wake-up call. Looking at the maps for where the critical habitat is located along the coast of Florida extending north, I can't help but think what's going on now in the Gulf on the other side of Florida. Habitat is precious. For an endangered species, it is particularly precious...
Is there not any way that we , the lovers of whlaes can reach those that are considering ending the moratorium ?For 17 years now, I have spent many summer days with the Southern Resident Orca Community of the Salish Sea. It is so clear to me just how important it is to our evolution as humans that the cetaceans' sentience breaths in the seas of this precious planet. Thank you for this blog , Helena and Paul.
As humans, we are very cuouris about the many species that inhabit the earth. At this point, we havent even covered more than half of the amount of species that exist. We strive for knowledge and if all the things that we love to observe are gone from the see, we wont gain that knowledge. Each organism is important to life as it solves things that you've never thought of and can actually be useful. Additionally, there is a debate going on about how if humans can live, other organisms should be able to live as well without getting extinct.All organisms are connected to a food web. Each and every organism in a food web is important in one way or another because they keep the population of their prey stable. One large concern about the death of organisms is the death of keystone predators. Keystone predators are important to the many species that prey on each other. If one type of keystone predator will go extinct, their prey's population will rise at a point to when they will feed on their prey and their prey will become extinct. Then, the keystone predators prey will also become extinct on a lack of food. The trophic levels in the environment and very delicate and fragile. One bad move like the oil spill can cause a large impact to the biomes/biosphere/communities/ecosystems of marine animals.Not only did the oil spill cause many marine animals to die, they are also affecting a large amount of humans, too. Many humans fish for shrimp and other seafood in the gulf. Because of the oil, the toxins of the oil enter the fish. If a human eats the fist, the toxins will settle in the fat of the human and will stay there for a long time. It is very unhealthy and can overall cause cancers and other long-term problems. Additionally, this also is disrupting the lives of many surfers and people who deal with water in the gulf from a day to day basis before the spill occurred I hope that helped!