Oysters could be in deep oilly trouble

So, conservation groups have been working together around the Gulf of Mexico and on the East Coast to re-establish oyster beds to help clean up water and reinvigorate ecosystems. There has been good progress. Learn more here:

http://www.nature.org/initiatives/marine/features/oyster.html

And then read this mess of a story on the Gulf Oil Spill (courtesy of British Petroleum and Halliburton among others). Looks like progress on oysters in the past few years by conservation groups is getting ready to get destroyed:

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/15/already-vanishing-oyster-reefs-under-threat-from-oil-spill-video/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet