DawnWatch: ABC Nightline on penguin crisis as their food goes to farm-raised salmon — 11/28/06
November 29th, 2006 9:32 pm by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Nov 29, 2006 9:26 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: ABC Nightline on penguin crisis as their food goes to farm-raised salmon 11/28/06
ABC’s Nightline gave us more wonderfully animal friendly coverage on Tuesday, November 28. Using the new movie “Happy Feet” as his jump-off point, reporter Bill Blakemore looked at the real plight of penguins. He told us they are struggling to survive because of global warming, now threatening to melt the frozen sea surface many penguins need for survival, and because of extensive over-fishing. We learned that the colony of emperors made famous in the popular documentary “March of the Penguins” has lost 50% of its number over the past half-century. Blakemore explained that their main source of food is tiny shrimp-like creatures called krill, and that the krill are being taken in enormous catches, mostly to be ground up and fed to farm-raised salmons. He ended his report by telling us that scientists say that unless humanity figures out how to reverse the course down south, the happy ending in “Happy Feet” will be just wishful thinking.
You can read the web version of the report at abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2683077&page=1.
Please take just a moment to send Nightline a quick thank you. The show takes comments at
abcnews.go.com/Nightline/News/story?id=64544.
I send thanks to Judith Pynn who made sure we knew about the coverage.
Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn
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