Penguin rescue

Penguin rescue

Volunteer Nicole Gueller from Germany catches an oiled African penguin after being washed to hand feed it as part of a rehabilitation process at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coast birds (SANCCOB) in Cape Town. A total of 129 oiled African penguis were rescued from the islands along the southern Namibian coastline following an unidentified oil spill and transported to SANCCOB in the first-ever cross-border penguin rescue. The penguins will undergo a rehabilitation program before being released back into the ocean. African penguins are listed as vulnerable to extinction and there are only 27,000 breeding pairs of these charismatic birds left.

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http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=287963&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21