From AP

[thewiseguy]

A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. The is home to hundreds of herons, brown pelicans, terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

:-(

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. No words.

:grr: :cry: :grr:

[RandomThoughts]

2. I hope the systems that create such corruption are made more transparent.

So that what they have been doing is known and can be corrected. So that birds, people, or animals have a better chance at a better life.

[Cetacea]

3. Thanks. eom

[applegrove]

4. Apparently BP has hired people to walk along the beaches in the morning to pick up all the dead,

washed ashore animals and dispose of them before pictures can be taken.

[Quantess]

10. That's a big job,

and no matter how hard they try, a few photos of dying wildlife are going to be snapped.

[cliffordu]

5. That photo should be embedded in every car dash in the fucking world.

This is our fucking fault.

[marylanddem]

6. This is the saddest, worst, most criminal aspect of this whole fucking disaster.

[Quantess]

7. So sad.

[1620rock]

8. ...that poor animal...

:cry:

[laughingliberal]

9. ...

:cry:

[Jamastiene]

11. K&R&

:cry:

People need to see this. This is the real cost. Destroying an entire ecosystem should be a crime punishable by severe jail time. Not only are they destroying the animal and plant life, they are slowly destroying the entire planet. It's ridiculous. The amount of greed is unprecedented.

I should have stayed nonhuman when I defected from the human race back in '98. I'm ashamed to be part of this murderous, destructive species.

[Are_grits_groceries]

12. Please warn me.

I have so many images already embedded in my mind. A horror slide show can be started in my brain at any moment. I can seriously drop immediately to a very depressed level. From experience, I always wonder if I will be able to get back up.

If one says that I shouldn't avoid the horror, believe me I can't.

[11 Bravo]

13. Heartbreaking.