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Save the Endangered Species-The Humboldt Penguin [VHS]

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I think parents who want their children to see the facts behind fictional accounts like "Happy Feet" may want this. Like that film, this deals with how humans are making things worse for these creatures.
This work asks an excellent question: "If humans say they love penguins so much, why have they played a huge role in them becoming endangered?"
I was shocked to learn that these animals have gone from millions to a few thousand since Western intervention. The work goes on to say no one cause is to blame and the destruction has been ongoing. It's Old World killers, humans' polluting the oceans, humans' taking the dirt in which the penguins live, global warming, etc. At one point, scientists put a tracker on a penguin carcass and I have no idea why. It seems futile to track a dead body, rather than a live one.
The humans here are diverse: women and men; Latinos and whites; the educated and the uneducated. The work, like a lot of pro-environmental stuff, tries to bring a ray of hope. It implies that extinction is not inevitable. It says some humans are working to keep this species around.