Concerns Up and Down the Food Chain

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Concerns Up and Down the Food Chain
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: May 4, 2010
The New York Times

BRETON ISLAND, La. — As the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon spreads across the Gulf of Mexico, environmentalists and government officials have been working frantically to protect shoreline habitat like this island in the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, eight miles off the coast of Louisiana.

Breton Island, with its hundreds of nesting birds, has been protected by orange booms, as have many other areas of delicate estuaries and wetlands.

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