Oil Spill

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/science/earth/23spill.html?_r=1&hpw

"“The scene at Nightingale is dreadful, as there is an oil slick encircling the island,” Trevor Glass, a local conservation officer, said in a statement." this is what one officer said about the oil spill at Nightingale Island. More that 800 tons of fuel oil have leaked into the Atlantic Ocean. The biggest danger is that the 20,000 endangered penguins that live there will die from the oil spill. A well-equipped response ship will be sent on Thursday to help rescue the penguins.

I think that it is important to rescue the penguins before to many of them die. Since they are an endangered species of penguin it is even more important that they are rescued soon. The birds cannot be moved though because people are worried about transmission of diseases to which the birds have no resistance to.