An Ahimsa Crisis: You Decide: Care For Injured Birds

In May of 2010, due to a major oil spill from the oil-pumping rig of BP Oil Company, in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of sea birds and mammals were injured and became coated with the tar, thick oil, and toxic film. As a result, many could not move, fly, or even breathe. A large number started dying.

As soon as the pictures of this environmental disaster started becoming available, hundreds of animal activists and animal lovers descended on the scene and started cleaning the injured birds, caring for them, and thus saved the lives of thousands of these poor and helpless creatures affected by the man- made disaster.

This was again active - not just passive - compassion in action.