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The Telegraph -
Endangered penguins have been rescued from an oil spill that is threatening to cause an environmental disaster on one of Britain’s remote South Atlantic islands.
A wrecked ship has grounded on Nightingale Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha UK overseas territory in the South Atlantic, causing an oil slick around the island which is home to nearly half the world's population of northern rockhopper penguins.
Hundreds of rockhopper penguins, made famous by the character of Lovelace in the film "Happy Feet", have been coming ashore covered in oil. Many are so badly oiled it is impossible to see the trademark black and yellow feathered crest. Some 1,500 tonnes of heavy crude oil from the MS Olivia, which was shipping soya beans between Rio de Janeiro and Singapore, is leaking into the sea.
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