What Can You Do To Help The Gulf Coast Region?

Support the people, communities and wildlife of the Gulf Coast Region.

• To report oiled wildlife, please call 1-866-557-1401.
• To discuss oil related damage, please call 1-800-440-0858.
• To report oiled shoreline or to request volunteer information, please call 1-866-448-5816. This is the BP Community Support Team Hotline, which is being used as a hub by nonprofit organizations to coordinate volunteer inquiries. Leave a message with your contact information and your questions about how to help or information on oiled shoreline.

• National Wildlife Federation is working with the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program and the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana to coordinate volunteer efforts in southern Louisiana. You can register to volunteer with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana here. They are looking specifically for people with HAZWOPER training, or experience operating boats, handling wildlife, or photographing or monitoring oil movement. The National Wildlife Federation is also encouraging anyone looking to lend a hand to visit its website. It offers a variety of ways to help from volunteering to online advocacy, and is asking people to contact their senators to demand legislation for cleaner and safer energy choices. NWF is also accepting donations via mobile device. Text "WILDLIFE" to 20222 to donate $10 to help wildlife affected by the spill.
• International Bird Rescue and Research Center has sent a team of specialists to the region to help with any oiled wildlife. The center's site has a comprehensive Spill Response FAQ for those who want to help clean and treat oiled birds. They ask anyone who has spotted oiled wildlife to call the Wildlife Reporting Hotline at 866-557-1401. It is important to note that oiled birds should NOT be captured, but reported using the hotline.
• National Audubon Society is recruiting volunteers to be trained to respond to the oil spill. The group is also encouraging the public to contact the Interior Department and ask it to halt the expansion of offshore oil drilling in the eastern United States. Register to volunteer here.

• The Greater New Orleans Foundation has set up the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund to help with cleanup and environmental protection efforts. To learn more about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund, please call Josephine Everly at (504)598-4663 or Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla
• Oxfam America is working to help vulnerable communities affected by the spill. A tax-deductible donation can be made here.
• Earthshare Gulf Coast Spill donate


• Horizon Relief.org : donations go to out of work laborers, such as deckhands, oyster shuckers, shrimp factory workers and dock workers and you can receive your very own vial of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Who knows, if enough donate, we could get the spill cleaned up!