Delay the inevitable is booming cleanup efforts; fight.

Brian Naylor/NPR

The Pelican Rookery on Cat Island is protected by double Outrigger many birds still show signs of oil contamination.

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While oil beaches and marshes from Louisiana has fouled to Florida, the majority has not achieved.Yet, their effects are easily visible even where cleanup efforts most intense been. South of New Orleans, Barataria Bay is full of shrimp, fish, birds and mammals - and now oil, a natural treasure.

"Brent Ballay directs its 23 foot skiff on water, stop at one point, he describes as a very, very oily swamp." It's pretty evil – indeed disgusting. "It's only wave after wave of oil here for close to two months been."

Below are some inches from the swamp grass is braun.Stillstehend long absorbent booms are saturated with oil in the water before the grass, looking for something like fat Anaconda snakes.

The boom "do much good to prevent that the oil further isn't moved to country" says Amanda Moore of the National Wildlife Federation."Once it is been oiled as follows, it is useless."Moore, who is to make clean-up, is unhappy about what she sees.

No escape for wildlife

The oil is not only on the banks of the Marschland.Sie coats water sometimes appear as a shimmering shine, at other times as reddish brown Flecken.Trotz of all skimming and establishing boom there is plenty of oil in the Bay of Barataria.doch it also much life gibt.Steigen of a couple of dolphins alongside Ballay's boat out oily Wasser.Ballay it says a mother and baby.

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