Atlantic oil spill threatens endangered penguins

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Atlantic oil spill threatens endangered penguins​

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press

Associated Press March 22, 2011 05:47 AMTuesday, March 22, 2011

(03-22) 05:47 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) --

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Thousands of endangered penguins have been coated with oil after a cargo ship ran aground and broke up on a remote British South Atlantic territory, officials and conservationists said Tuesday.
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Tristan da Cunha's conservation officer, Trevor Glass, said oil was encircling Nightingale Island and called the situation "a disaster." Island administrators said some 20,000 penguins had been coated in oil.​

The territory is home to some 200,000 penguins, including almost half the world's total of northern rockhopper penguins...​

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Re: Atlantic oil spill threatens endangered penguins

Nightingale Island Oil Spill

Uploaded by WheresAndrewTV on Mar 24, 2011

Nightingale Island, part of the remote Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic, was hit on March 16th, 2011 by the MV Oliva, a freighter carrying soybeans from Brazil to Singapore. Over 800 tons of fuel oil was spilled onto the island's shores, poisoning the local population of endangered northern rockhopper penguins. I arrived on the site on March 23, 2011. This is what I saw.


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