Penguins saved from oil spills

Have you ever wondered what we do to save penguins from man made disasters, such as oil spills? In the ‘Amazing penguin rescue’ and ‘Saving the penguins one sweater at a time’ It talks about how people save penguins from oil spills. When ships get damaged and leak oil through the water, it brings danger to many animals. The damage to the penguins is devastating. The oil burns their eyes, spreads their feathers apart, which make them cold and they get hypothermia. They try to get the oil off with their beaks and swallow the oil in the progress.

People helped penguins by making sweaters for them. In ‘Saving penguins one sweater at a time’ it says “The workers were scrambling to save the oil-slicked birds, but the penguins were in bad shape. They could not keep warm. to make matters worse, they were trying to preen their feathers to get rid of the oil. In the process, they were swallowing the toxic oil, which would slowly kill them. If the workers didn’t act quickly, the little penguins were not going to survive. Then the workers had an unusual idea: sweaters. Teeny-tiny penguin sweaters.” There was just not much they could do for the penguins, until they came up with the sweater idea. Therefore, humans saved the penguins by brilliantly making them sweaters.

Humans helped penguins also by taking them to a warehouse to keep them warm and feed them food there. In ‘Scholastic News’ It says, ten miles from the island, outside the city of Cape Town, a team of scientists and volunteers has transformed a warehouse into a penguin rescue center. They work with astonishing speed. The warehouse contains hundreds of round enclosures, each large enough to accommodate 100 penguins. other areas of the warehouse have been designated for washing penguins. one room is filled with ten tons of frozen fish, the amount needed daily to feed the penguins.” Everyday they have to force feed the penguins because they won’t eat. The humans helped the penguins, even when they would fight back and bite them with their sharp beaks. People have made a warehouse into a penguin rescue center because they care for the penguins and will risk getting hurt for them.

            It is amazing how people are coming together to help the penguins, by either volunteering to feed and bathe them, make sweaters for them, or help clean up the toxic oil. these people are sacrificing their time and money just for the penguins. Therefore, that is what people have done to save penguins.