about environmental degradation. first in nigeria in the country around just to be precise it s a wetland area where they also used to be mined say now and the governments and local organizations are trying to create new jobs by helping people set up face fox let s go take a. chill my okafor does what she loves the most nature watch him she runs a conservation organization in a former mining area near the city of just one of the projects of the even creation care initiative is a fish from commercial business includes a vision ism is a perfect fit for careful the site has an old team mine insights alice transform into a fish farm in one thousand nine hundred six to produce fish for commercial purposes there was a change in management and left to deteriorate but we have come into management and
plymouth, massachusetts. i appreciate you calling in. can you just first talk me through what folks there on the ground in huntington beach, what the situation is what they need to do? i think the first thing is that you have to assess whether or not this is an animal that is in need of human intervention or not. and so, you know, from what i ve seen, there s a pod swimming somewhat freely and then this one particular animal that s a little bit away and stranded. here normally if we have a situation like that, we would try and actually move the single animal and move it out toward a deeper water area. often times you get animals, these are common dolphins. they re supposed to be in deep water. once they get into a shallow area, particularly a wetland area, it s really confusing for them. what can happen? can you hammer home how dangerous this is, how urgent this is for these folks to get this dpolphin to deeper water. as long as the animal can stay afloat, they re not i
teaching lesson and worse, for how man can destroy his own habitat. we re looking at the maps, showing it on the air now, the area covered. what s the worst it could happen? deaths of unlimited amount of wildlife. destruction of shore lands. perhaps long term. what s your estimate of the cost here? oh, well i mean i think, i think we have no idea what the price cost could be. i mean bp says they re spending $6 million a day already. but the they have it, they have it. they can afford it. well we have no idea what the environmental costs will be. along the coast are two very sensitive wildlife refugees along the shore. this is very sensitive wetland area. there s blowing further away from louisiana. it could be spreading to other states. and there s more oil coming out here than people can imagine even a few days ago, it s five times bigger, it very soon could be bigger than the exxon valdez. we did the math. if it takes two months to clean this up, at x many barrels a day i
wildlife. destruction of shorelands. perhaps long-term. what s your estimate of the cost here? oh, well i mean i think, i think we have no idea what the price cost could be. i mean bp says they re spending $6 million a day already. but the they have it, they have it. they can afford it. well we have no idea what the environmental costs will be. along the coast are two very sensitive wildlife refugees along the shore. this is very sensitive wetland area. there s blowing further away from louisiana. it could be spreading to other states. and there s more oil coming out here than people can imagine even a few days ago, it s five times bigger, it very soon could be bigger than the exxon valdez. if it takes two months to clean up at x many barrels a day, it will be 12 million gallons of oil. now, at large in the gulf and throughout the world. what does it end up eventually being, that oil? what will it end up being? where does it go, the 12
right now is they re trying to skim up some water, oil on the water surface, and they re putting booms out along the coastline here in the southern tip of louisiana because officials have said given the way the wind is blowing now onto the shoreline, that oil could hit the louisiana coast as early as tomorrow night, the beginning of the oil, the sheen, could start coming in and then could continue to come in through the weekend. so they re trying to put booms up to protect that wetland area where so many species of birds, anim animals, fish and other marine species rely on that estuary. it s a critical area and a big concern. what about the latest? the big story yesterday was the plan to burn off some of this oil. what s the latest on that? reporter: well, they did do it. they had a burn that they did yesterday. they said it was successful. the idea there is to take the thickest of the oil out there which can be burned. they corral it in these fire-retardant booms, make a big