Penguins need a sweater to protect themselves from pollution

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A group of penguins wearing sweaters might seem like an image exclusive to the Christmas season, in fact you may have found it on more than one card and they certainly turn out to be very cute. The Penguin Foundation and the Philiph Island Wildlife Rehabilitation Center have brought this to real life and the reasons are not so pleasant.

As incredible as they look, the garments are not at all a fashion accessory, but are part of the Penguin Jumper Program initiative, which first saw the light of day in 2001, when hundreds of little blue penguins were affected by oil spills. in Australia and New Zealand; So that these animals did not ingest the harmful chemicals attached to their feathers when grooming, the foundation launched a call with which it managed to collect one million sweaters and save 96% of these birds.

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Since then, the Penguin Jumper Program asks volunteers around the world to donate yarn or even make sweaters to contribute to this cause. Those interested in joining can download the manual in this link to know the necessary proportions.

In addition to preventing the penguins from being Europe Cell Phone Number List poisoned by chemicals stuck to their feathers, the sweaters also protect them from the cold once the pollutants have broken down the fat that insulates their skin from low temperatures, thus preventing extreme weather conditions. their natural habitat become their cause of death.

Through this program, volunteers also have the option of adopting a penguin for a year and even giving it a name. Could it be that people can resist providing help to these incredible animals?



The document, however, does not specify how the Nevado forests will be returned to their original mass, if everything that expands the forest mass will be cut down for commercial purposes.

In fact, although the Management Plan ensures that “sustainable use schemes” will be applied, it does not clearly specify what those commercial logging schemes will be that allow the regeneration of the forests to their original state.

On the contrary, when referring to these commercial schemes, the document loses itself in a general explanation, which does not specify any of their specific characteristics.

Textually it states: “Timber forestry – it is indicated – must be carried out through management that considers ecological principles, respecting the functional integrity and interdependence of resources, without reducing the productive capacity of ecosystems and their existing resources, for which, the techniques used will allow conserving and strengthening the vigor and health of the forests, increasing the rates of natural regeneration and therefore the real stock of trees, reducing fragmentation, strengthening the environmental services provided by the Nevado de Toluca forest.