Answer 1: 1st answer On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq wanted to take over Kuwait and its valuable oil wells. The war ended when a coalition of countries, including the United States and Saudi Arabia, began a war to force Iraq out of Kuwait. When Iraqi soldiers were being forced out of Kuwait they blew up or damaged over 700 oil wells in Kuwait. The Persian Gulf War had many environmental consequences. Iraqi soldiers damaged wells which caused fires that burned for months. It also killed over 114,000 animals, including 102 species of birds, whales, bottlenose dolphins and sea turtles.
Answer 2: Oil spills damage nesting grounds, potentially causing serious long-term harmful effects on entire species. Oil spills also damage coral reefs also potentially causing long term harmful effects on marine wildlife, as well as extinction. oil spills hurt the plants and animals living on coastlines, an oil spill in the Persian Gulf killed about 50 to 90 percent of the animals living on the coastlines. The Persian Gulf is vulnerable to oil spills as its water takes hundreds of years to renew.
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