"OIL POLLUTION AND ITS EFFECT ON WILDLIFE"

Contamination of the oceans by oil spillage is not a rare occurrence.

It is happening all over the world every day, fouling coastlines,

killing animals and destroying fisheries.

In 1987, more than 3.5 million tons of oil were released into the

oceans around the world. Out of that only 28 percent of the spillage

was accidental; the remaining 72 percent was deliberate, illegal

The sources of oil spillage were:

A lot of the illegal pollution is caused by cleaning of

oil tanks at sea. After they are cleaned the tankers then

dump the polluted water, mixed with all the oil residue,

Blowouts occurring at oil well heads release huge amounts

of oil and gas into the ocean. The drilling vessel IXTOTI

released more than 400,000 tons of oil into the Gulf of

mexico over a period of 9 months after its well exploded

The most publicized of the oil spills are those caused by tanker

can help and reduce oil pollution by returning used motor oil for recycling

throughout the North Sea through the dumping of petroleum products, both on

activity this may be avoided. Every year, a large amount of oil is spilled

once there is an oil spill, it cannot be prevented from causing

land on the water by thousands, only to be trapped in the oil and die of

accidents. There have been hundreds of accidents involving the

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