This is sad news: in Brazil, hundreds of baby penguins are washing up dead on the shores of Brazil’s beaches.
The culprit? It’s unclear but many speculate it’s either due to: 1. overfishing, which causes penguins to fish closer to shore and get caught in swift current; or 2. pollution, the Campos oil field (off the shores of Brazil) and other pollutants are weakening penguins’ immune systems.
It’s pretty sad to see so many plant and animal species being so detrimentally impacted by our environment. Honeybees, polar bears, penguins and more… what next?
I”ve read recently that the weather has been very strange in Antarctica lately; torrential downpours in what is normally a very dry place (I think it was under an inch a year?) I would assume this is due to a rise in temperature, over the freezing point.
The baby penguins do not yet have their water-repelling feathers, become soaked, and freeze to death as the temperature drops.
Hopefully, people will be more sympathetic to the plight of the penguins than they were over the polar bears or the honeybee…