Name: Dyan deNapoli: Den store pingvinredning
Uploaded: 2011-08-09T15:15:38Z
Duration: 11 min 26 s
Description: En personlig fortælling, en kollektiv triumf: Dyan deNapoli fortæller historien om verdens største frivillige dyreredning, som reddede mere end 40.000 pingviner efter et oliespild udfor kysten af Sydafrika. Hvordan bliver et så stort job udført? Pingvin efter pingvin efter pingvin...

I neglected to say the name of the 17-year-old student who invented the degreaser used on the penguins. It was Louis Kock.


I unfortunately omitted a very important statement here. After saying, "Well, you should care because they're an indicator species," I meant to add, "and 15 of the 18 penguin species on Earth are currently listed as threatened or endangered."

I meant to say "oceanographer" before Sylvia Earle's name. (There may have been some confusion here, due to the fact that the German biologist's first name is also Sylvia.)

En personlig fortælling, en kollektiv triumf: Dyan deNapoli fortæller historien om verdens største frivillige dyreredning, som reddede mere end 40.000 pingviner efter et oliespild udfor kysten af Sydafrika. Hvordan bliver et så stort job udført? Pingvin efter pingvin efter pingvin...

Dyan deNapoli: Den store pingvinredning

When a massive oil spill threatened nearly half the world’s African penguins, a global volunteer effort rescued over 90 percent of the birds. More than 12,500 volunteers flooded to Cape Town, cleaning and hand-feeding penguins one by one. Innovations like improved transport boxes and a teenager’s homemade degreaser played critical roles. The rescue proved that collective action and practical solutions can overcome even the bleakest odds for endangered species.