Public Radio International’s Bob Edwards Weekend explores the Gulf Oil clean up.
Listen to Bob Edward’s Weekend report HERE.
Bob Edward – This week in our series NO PLACE LIKE HOME, we’ll focus on wildlife. While oil was still gushing out of the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, and even now that the well is sealed, birds, turtles and many other animals are coated with goopy brown crude.
Bob talks with EMILY GUIDRY SCHATZEL of the National Wildlife Federation about how her group is working alongside government agencies. Then, Bob talks with TODD BAKER of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and SHARON TAYLOR of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the efforts to rescue, clean and relocate animals threatened by the oil spill.
Finally, we travel to the bird rehabilitation center at Fort Jackson, Louisiana where dozens of brown pelicans have been cleaned and nursed back to health. Many have been relocated to safer areas in other states and dozens wait in outdoor pens for their new home to be found.
