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BP Spill Money to Help Enlarge Louisiana Coast Island, Expand Wildlife Refuge December 28, 2020 Money from the 2010 BP PLC oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is being used to help to expand the size of the U.S. wildlife refuge off Louisiana’s coastline. Work has begun off Louisiana on a project to more than double the size of an island in the nation’s second-oldest wildlife refuge. The project will add 400 acres of new habitat for birds and animals on North ...

Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com Dec 28, 2020 1:39 PM Work has begun on a 54.9 million dollar restoration of the North Breton Island wildlife sanctuary, a vital brown pelican habitat just east of the Plaquemines Parish. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson Taylor Pool said the project will add 400 acres of land to the third-largest colony for waterbirds in the state. “It is a very vital habitat for these birds and barrier islands are very alluvial and succumb to storm surge and ...