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Oil gentoo penguin, South Georgia. © Roger Grace/Greenpeace
credit: © Roger Grace/Greenpeace
Oil gentoo penguin, South Georgia
This gentoo penguin is covered in oil from an oil spill in the coastal waters of South Georgia, in the South Atlantic Ocean. Research has found that some 42,000 Magellanic penguins alone die from oil pollution annually along the Argentinean coast. read more 
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