456,350 views | Dyan deNapoli • TEDxBoston 2011
The great penguin rescue
The world's largest volunteer animal rescue, saved more than 40,000 penguins after an oil spill off the coast of South Africa. Dyan deNapoli tells the triumphant story. How does a job this big get done? Penguin by penguin by penguin ...
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The world's largest volunteer animal rescue, saved more than 40,000 penguins after an oil spill off the coast of South Africa. Dyan deNapoli tells the triumphant story. How does a job this big get done? Penguin by penguin by penguin ...
This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBoston 2011, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.
Read more about TEDx.Volunteer to help save our planet's endangered species.
About the speaker
Call her "the Penguin Lady." Dyan deNapoli educates the world about these fascinating birds.
| Book
SPILL: The Story of the World’s Worst Coastal Bird Disaster
This book, written by several of the Treasure rescue directors, is no longer in print, but can occasionally be found via online booksellers.
Pablo Garcia Borboroglu and P. Dee Boersma (Editors) | University of Washington Press, 2013 | Book
Penguins: Natural History and Conservation
This book features the most current research and conservation data, provided by the world's leading experts for each species. This is the definitive guide for each of the eighteen penguin species.
Lloyd Spencer Davis | Harper Perennial, 2007 | Book
Smithsonian Q&A: Penguins
Written by one of the world's leading penguin experts, this book is for those looking for slightly lighter (yet still authoritative) fare. This book will answer every question you've ever had (as well as many you'd never even think to ask) about penguins.
Journeyman Pictures, 2000 | Watch
Endangered species — South Africa
This moving and informative 25-minute documentary fills in many fascinating details of the Treasure oil spill rescue that I did not have time to cover in my talk.
50/50, November 12, 2012 | Watch
Oiled penguins
This ten-minute video, from a South African TV show called 50/50, covers the 2009 grounding of the Seli 1 off the coast of Cape Town and the 2012 oiling of some 220 African penguins when oil began leaking again from the stranded ship.
| Article
20,000 Patient Penguins
This report, published by the International Bird Rescue Research Center, provides a thorough overview of the rescue, rehabilitation and relocation of the 40,000 African penguins that were impacted by the Treasure oil spill.
Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town | Article
The Treasure Oil Spill
This series of links on the Avian Demography Unit (now the Animal Demography Unit) website provides a wealth of information and statistics about the Treasure oil spill and the ensuing penguin rescue. For information on their studies of the African penguin, visit their new website.
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