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title: Even Penguins Getting to Work
date: 2010-10-10T13:43:28Z
modified: 2010-10-10T13:43:28Z
permalink: "https://350.org/even-penguins-getting-work/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 26599
author: Bill McKibben
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa. African Penguins,
rehabilitated victims of oil pollution, are released back into the sea in
front of hundreds of participants in a 350.org 10/10/10 Global Work Party.
The African Penguin has recently been classified as an Endangered Species as
its population has crashed from over a million birds a century ago to 20,000
and still declining rapidly. Scientists suspect that shifts in oceanic fish
populations triggered by climate change are starving the birds. PHOTO: Ryan
Allen/350.org