Our new campaign, Stepping Up for Nature, will feature many stories of people going the extra mile to make a difference for wildlife. Little could the people of Tristan da Cunha have envisaged how their lives would have been taken over by efforts to rescue rockhopper penguins from the oily impact of the wreck of the Oliva.
It’s looking like potentially as many as 10,000 penguins have been affected – Nightingale Island is home to half of all the northern rockhopper penguins. This is a grievous blow to one of the world’s most endangered penguins.
The people of Tristan have risen to the challenge and stepped up – even the swimming pool has been drained and filled with seawater to help in the rescue.
You can read more here and you can contribute to the Nightingale Island Disaster fund here.
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