This is bird milk.

With the right information and motivation,

with the right information and motivation,

people will come to the aid of birds in trouble.

Professor D. Boersma has been studying Magillanic penguins along the coast of Argentina for more than 30 years.

She describes how people speaking out helped the birds there.

When I started working on Mejalenic Penguins in 1983 at Plunto tumble, which has the largest Mejalenic penguin colony in the world, we realized that oil pollution was really a huge problem for these birds.

And so we were seeing birds coming ashore covered in oil. The reason that there was so much illegal

dumping is because it's cheaper. If you dump the ballast water from your oil

tankers, you save a whole day of time. So you don't have to pay the crew, you don't have to treat the oil, it's

the penguins that pay the price. This is a tragedy and of course we started bringing this to the

government's attention.

We had pictures on the newspapers and in local radio programs.

And in 1997, they moved the tanker lanes further offshore.

And since then, some years we get no penguins dead on the beach covered in oil.

There's not so much of that release of the ballast water.

And in large part, it's because of public outcry. of that

the balance water. I think the true motivation for conservation is when people care.

And people care about penguins.

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