Oil Spilled Penguins Post Apollo Sea

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November 25, 2013

 

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The cause of this unfortunate decrease in population are the many oil spills near southern Africa, with the first oil spill occurring in 1948 (Whittington 1999). Since 1968, the Southern African National Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) has made attempts to rehabilitate oiled penguins (Whittington 1999)...
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SANCCOB has treated some 40,000 oiled penguins in the past 30 years. Oil on the penguins’ feathers removes the waterproofing that the penguins rely on for insulation, which can ultimately lead to death (Singer 2000). In the 1994 incident caused by the Apollo Sea, a Panamanian ore carrier, on June 20th, a total of 9,600 oiled penguins were collected, 5,200 of these birds died before the end of rehabilitation...
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