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Overhunting
Usage
As Fertilizer
Farmers fed birds to PIGS
Professional hunters killed pigeons to SELL
Good food supply
Many pigeons broke their limbs off the trees
Reason
Hunting them was easy
Since
No LAWS limited hunting
Whole flocks of pigeons landed in ONE PLACE
People cut forests to make room for farms
No tree
No enough FOOD
In 1913
Only ONE
Live in Zoo
In 1813
Looked like a RIVER flowing through air
The light of noon-day was as by an ECLIPSE
Most common bird
Billions of Eggs were destroyed
Seals&Sea otters got stuck in the goop
Feathers of birds were coated with heavy oil
Some birds drowned
Birds could not fly
11 million gallons oil poured out from steel bottom
The ship crashed into ROCKS
Turned too fast
Exxon Valdez turned to avoid hitting icebergs
March 24, 1989
Sailing through
Prince William Sound in Alaska
Millions of wildlife lived there
Famous for NATURAL BEAUTY
Carry crude oil
Is a
Oil Supertanker
People who survived became so ill
Couldn't take care of themselves
Couldn't go to school
Couldn't work
200,000 - 500,000 people injured
4,000 - 10,000 people died
Doctors weren't sure how to treat patients
Because
Officials of the chemical company didn't tell what was in the gas
Dead bodies(animals) everywhere
Family Separation (when people running for lives)
As thick as FOG
Eyes were swollen that people could not open them
Bad Effects to human bodies
Had froth in mouths
Noses were watering
Tears Coming Out
Felt like somebody had filled the body up with RED CHILIES
Coughing
Realeased in
An Explosion at a Factory
Midnight
