Summary and Response

Russia Looks to Baltic Neighbours over Oil Spill

In “Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill” by Aleksandr Naumov from BBC new talks about a huge number of waterfowl died on the Baltic shores because of massive fuel oil slick. (Naumov, 2005, para. l ). This is the largest amount of birds died collectively have ever seen( para. 3). Almost of them are migratory birds. The correspondent explains it is difficult to protect birds to live in water with oil( para. 5). However, investigators cannot find out the truly source where is the oil from. If they find out the chief offender, Russia government will punish huge money of fines.
In my opinion, I think there maybe some possible reasons that why birds died. First, There is too much different between Russia and the area where the bird migrates from, then the bird may not adapts to heavily polluted environment in Russia. Maybe they come from the environment is very clean, and suddenly they contact the pollution in Russia and group of them died together.
Second, birds eat the toxic fishes and aquatic grasses then died. The sea is polluted. Then all aquatic grasses and fishes are suffered toxic element. When birds drink water and eat food every day, toxic element is continued cause damage to birds. Then one day they will die and nobody knows the reason.
Finally, Russia’s government should have more environmental knowledge. Russia is a developing country. They think economy is the most important thing in this day. They ignore the importance of environment. Later in the future, they just have to pay more money to recover environment like developed countries.
In conclusion, no matter the reasons of died birds. The result is there are a huge number of birds died is that means it also threaten human live. This is a potential environment intact. Human also drink water every day. Maybe we have to worry about that the toxic element comes with groundwater. First it killed all the birds, next time it will threaten the lives of our human beings. Russia’s government should have to pay more attention in their environment.

Reference: Naumov, Aleksandr. (Feb. 16, 2005). Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill. BBC News. Retrieved from Lexis Nexis.

by Mandy