Name: 【TED】Dyan deNapoli:偉大的企鵝救援（Dyan deNapoli：The great penguin rescue）。 (【TED】Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue (Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:08:19.000Z
Duration: 11 min 44 s

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And when I first learned about endangered species,

當我首度得知瀕臨絶種物種的訊息,

that every day animals were being wiped off the face of this Earth forever.

每天有動物會永遠從地球消失。

what could one person possibly do to make a difference?

一個人能做些什麼來改變事情的發展?

but I would eventually get the answer to that question.

When these heartbreaking images of oiled birds

這些鳥群慘遭石油毒害的驚心動魄景象

finally began to emerge from the Gulf of Mexico last year

最終暴光──去年發生在墨西哥灣,

十分嚴重的BP(國際石油公司)漏油事件──

a German biologist by the name of Silvia Gaus

一位德國生物學家名為Silvia Gaus

"We should just euthanize all oiled birds

「我們應讓所有的『油鳥』安樂死

釋放牠們重返自然後,低於百分之一的

And in addition, I believe that every oiled animal

為何我對這件事有強烈的感受。

一艘叫『寶藏』(Treasure)的運輸船

sank off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa,

沈入南非開普敦(Capetown)沿海海域,

of nearly half the entire world population

Now the ship sank between Robben Island to the south

那艘船沈沒在海中,就在南往羅本島(Robben Island)

和北往Dassen Island的航行路線途中。

And these are two of the penguins' main breeding islands.

And exactly six years and three days earlier,

a ship named the Apollo Sea sank near Dassen Island,

一艘叫『阿波羅海』(Apollo Sea)鐵礦運輸船沈入Dassen Island附近海域,

當『寶藏』在2000年沈入大海時,

it was the height of the best breeding season

scientists had ever recorded for the African penguin --

which at the time, was listed as a threatened species.

在那時,牠們被列為生存受威脅的物種。

And the local seabird rescue center, named SANCCOB,

當地海鳥營救中心「SANCCOB」(The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds)

immediately launched a massive rescue operation --

立即發起一個大規模的救援行動──

the largest animal rescue ever undertaken.

有始以來最大規模的搶救動物行動。

Now at the time, I was working down the street.

I was a penguin aquarist at the New England Aquarium.

在新英格蘭海生館時,我是企鵝館館長。

And with that call, my life would change forever.

因那通電話,我的生活從而改變了。

It was Estelle van der Meer calling from SANCCOB,

是海鳥營救中心 Estelle van der Meer 打來的電話

but completely inexperienced, volunteers.

And we need penguin experts to come train and supervise them."

我們需要企鵝專家來訓練並管理他們。」

In fact, many people compared it to a war zone.

事實上,很多人稱其可與戰場相比擬。

And last week, a 10 year-old girl asked me,

And so I expected to walk into this building

when we stepped through those doors and into the building,

these were stressed, sick, traumatized birds.

這些是焦慮、生病、受創的企鵝。

and eventually, over the course of this rescue,

more than 12 and a half thousand volunteers

came from all over the world to Cape Town

was that not one of them had to be there --

So for the few of us that were there in a professional capacity,

看在我們──在那裡是少數的專業人員──的眼中,

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