Name: 【TED】Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue (Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue)
Uploaded: 2016-05-30T22:18:02.000Z
Duration: 11 min 44 s
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And when I first learned about endangered species,

that every day animals were being wiped off the face of this Earth forever.

what could one person possibly do to make a difference?

but I would eventually get the answer to that question.

When these heartbreaking images of oiled birds

finally began to emerge from the Gulf of Mexico last year

a German biologist by the name of Silvia Gaus

"We should just euthanize all oiled birds

And in addition, I believe that every oiled animal

sank off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa,

of nearly half the entire world population

Now the ship sank between Robben Island to the south

And these are two of the penguins' main breeding islands.

And exactly six years and three days earlier,

a ship named the Apollo Sea sank near Dassen Island,

it was the height of the best breeding season

scientists had ever recorded for the African penguin --

which at the time, was listed as a threatened species.

And the local seabird rescue center, named SANCCOB,

immediately launched a massive rescue operation --

the largest animal rescue ever undertaken.

Now at the time, I was working down the street.

I was a penguin aquarist at the New England Aquarium.

And with that call, my life would change forever.

It was Estelle van der Meer calling from SANCCOB,

but completely inexperienced, volunteers.

And we need penguin experts to come train and supervise them."

In fact, many people compared it to a war zone.

And last week, a 10 year-old girl asked me,

And so I expected to walk into this building

when we stepped through those doors and into the building,

these were stressed, sick, traumatized birds.

and eventually, over the course of this rescue,

more than 12 and a half thousand volunteers

came from all over the world to Cape Town

was that not one of them had to be there --

So for the few of us that were there in a professional capacity,

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【TED】Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue (Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue)

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