Safe to say "aftermath" yet?

It was just over a month or two that the massive BP spill had its take on the sea life and in no time it’s the China and the recent Mumbai oil spill taking turns to eat up sea life. It’s like a never ending disaster.

Although the magnitude of the BP spill has subsided following the recent measures taken, it’s predicted that its effects could last for decades, the two most affected species being the Kemp Ridley's turtles and the Atlantic blue-fin tuna. Some 1,020 sea turtles were caught up in the spill, according to figures, an ominous number for an endangered species. Wildlife officials collected 177 sea turtles last week, more than that in the first two months of the spill and a sizeable share of the 1,020 captured since the spill began more than four months ago. Some 517 of that total number were dead and 440 were covered in oil, according to figures maintained the Deep water Horizon response team. This is like the wholesale slaughter of turtles, dolphins, pelicans, hermit crab and other marine life readily visible to human eye.

Not only has this environment catastrophe affected the marine creatures, this oil slick has reached many shores nearby, whipping through the waves and has proved a hassle to the residents there with its strong smell which leads to dizziness and burning sensation in the nostrils.

Adding to this was the China oil spill and the recent Mumbai one. China is struggling to clean up and keep offshore what has been described as the country's worst oil spill, a fortnight after a fire at an oil depot caused crude to leak into the sea for several days.

Mumbai spill being caused due to the collision between two vessels has already spilled around 80 tonnes of oil into the waters. It is believed that nearly 3 tonnes of oil is seeping into the sea every hour. Scores of aquatic species and sea birds have been found dead along the Mumbai coast in the past week. As the spill was very near the harbor many mangroves in the shore have all been flooded with sticky oil.

Amid the clouds of despair and gloom too shines a ray of hope. Animal lovers in Mumbai seem to have braved their way through the toxic waters to save hundreds of seabirds and animals.