Small marine birds that can even be exposed to coin sized amounts of oil can die due to hypothermia in regions with cold water. Unfortunately, the off shore oil management in Canada is failing when it comes to the self regulation of small off shore oil spills. However, seabirds are rarely considered in the monitoring of small spills from offshore oil production projects in Newfoundland and Labrador even though Environment Canada has asked that they be included. When researchers delved further into this issue, they discovered that there were around 220 daytime oil spills.
This is a significant issue because aquatic birds play an important role in the marine ecosystem and are being dramatically effected by the small oil spills. It is important that awareness is raised for this issue in order to avoid endangerment of this species in the long run. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160526095451.htm
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