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Sanctuary. >> so it is illegal? last i checked with like the piping clover on long island, if you light a firework in a designated -- they put you in jail. how do you end up with predatory japanese fishing boats in a sanctuary, i guess it's antarctica. >> it is international waters but japan is a member of the iwc, the international whaling commission. but that that nation sets quotas for countries, but japan, rather than saying we want this quota for commercial whaling, that's essentially what they're doing is going down there to commercially whale but they say it's nor scientific purposes. t...

Probably slow death. >> reporter: the autobahn society is keeping an eye on shore birds. the beaches may look clean, they say, but birds may still dig down in the sand for food and end up taking in oil. that poses a real risk for the piping clover, a shore bird that's also an endangered species. as conservationist jay owen puts it, if the migrating birds make it all the way to the gulf, they're toast. >> this is the ritz-carlton for ducks. and for migratory birds and we need more of this. you get into the vegetation and it's a whole ecology of its own that produces a lot of the proteins and as...