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Krill Super-Trawlers Pushing Penguins Toward Extinction

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Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2013-04-25

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr 24 2013 (IPS) - Everyone loves penguins, but few will know that Thursday is World Penguin Day. Fewer still are those who know penguins are threatened with extinction by climate change and giant fishing trawlers from Europe and Asia stalking the oceans around Antarctica.

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http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/krill-super-trawlers-pushing-penguins-toward-extinction/