The Great penguin rescue / DeNapoli, Dyan

Dyan deNapoli, known as "the Penguin Lady," describes the efforts taken by her, along with 12,500 volunteers from around the world, to save the penguins native to the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, when a massive oil spill in 2000 contaminated the water and home of over forty percent of the world's penguin population.

On June 23, 2000 the iron ore carrier MV Treasure foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. A massive rescue effort was launched to de-oil the penguins and nurse them back to health. Nearly all of the birds survived.