What You Can Do To Help.
Volunteer to Clean Up
We appreciate your concern and willingness to help. Find opportunities at serve.gov.
If you or someone you know is interested in volunteering, please call the BP Response Volunteer Request Line at 1-866-448-5816 or visit the Web sites below.
State-specific volunteer opportunities:
You may also contact BP to:
- Report oiled shoreline or request volunteer information: (866) 448-5816
- Submit your vessel as a vessel of opportunity skimming system: (866) 279-7983
- Medical Support: (888) 623-0287
- Wildlife Distress: (866) 557-1401
- Environmental/Community Issues: (866) 448-5816
- Assistance/Boom Reports: (281) 366-5511
- PEC (Specialty Volunteer Training): (866) 647-2338
Gulf Oil Spill Jobs
Paid workers are needed to help protect the coast from the gulf oil spill, such as deploying oil boom and protective barriers. Some work may be off shore.
Workers also will be needed to clean up shoreline, structures, and assist wildlife damaged by oil.
Shore protection and oil spill clean up jobs will be offered to workers who Apply Online
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Support Distressed Wildlife
If you see oiled or injured birds, call the Wildlife Reporting Hotline (866-557-1401).
The public should not try to capture and treat birds on their own. Affected wildlife often suffer from dehydration or hypothermia and should be stabilized by experts.
Text “wildlife” to 20222 to donate $10 to the National Wildlife Federation’s Mobile Giving Campaign.
The National Audobon Center and state organizations such as Mobile Baykeeper (251-433-4229) and the Alabama Coastal Foundation and Save our Seabirds (Florida) invite donations and volunteers, and also run their own training programs.