Oil Soaked Penguins Getting Help

Efforts underway to save oil-soaked penguins in Argentina

 

(AFP) – Sep 15, 2010

BUENOS AIRES — More than 140 petroleum-covered penguins, including several which succumbed after being poisoned by the oil, have been found in southern Argentina, officials said Wednesday.
"We now have 130 penguins in our care and another 11 which have died," said Silvia Montanelli, head of the region's ministry which oversees agriculture and gaming. "We're on a state of alert."
She said the birds were part of a yearly migration of thousands of nesting penguins in Argentina's Patagonia region, which travel thousands of miles from southern Brazil.
Officials said they did not know what the source of the oil was, but said it is possible that it came from a spill that went undetected by authorities.
The governor of southern Argentina's Chabut region vowed to find and prosecute those responsible for any spill.

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