Tuesday, March 31, 2009

A Census Taker for Penguins in Argentina

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/science/earth/31conv.html?ref=science

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Published: March 30, 2009

In the early 1980s, a Japanese company went to the Argentine government and said, “We’d like a concession to harvest your penguins and turn them into oil, protein and gloves.” There was a public outcry. This was during a military dictatorship when dissidents were being thrown into the ocean from airplanes. And yet people said, “We object to having our penguins harvested.”

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