http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/02/atlantic.penguin.rescue.operation/index.html?hpt=C2
There was an oil spill on a chain of islands that are mid-way between Argentina and Africa half-way through March. The island is about 1,500 miles west of Cape Town, South Africa and it's called Nightingale Island. It's a British territory of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago. There are about 300 people who live on that island chain, but there are about 150,000 penguins living there. Now there are volunteers helping penguins that were covered in oil. Volunteers and island officials are trying to save tens of thousands of Northern Rockhopper penguins. There have been more than 300 penguins that have died from the oil spill. The ship carrying the oil was going from Santos, Brazil to Singapore. Since the spilll, the oil has surrounded the island which could cause an environmental disaster. The workers are taking the penguins on boats to rehabilitation centers on Tristan da Cunha, the main island. Volunteers are working with the penguins who were covered in oil. The main thing that they are trying to do is give food to the penguins because they are really hungry. The ship spilled the oil when the penguins were molting and when they are getting ready to go back into the sea.
I hope that they can help the penguins and get rid of all the oil. I wish that ships would be more careful, so they wouldn't spill oil and hurt the environment. I feel sorry for the penguins who are covered in oil and I feel bad for them because they can't go get food.
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