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The Heinz Awards

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November 24, 2009

Washington Post

What makes this bird so special?
By Juliet Eilperin

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA -- The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds -- a rehabilitation center complete with small swimming pools and medical files on all of its patients -- is where African penguins come to get better.

There are penguins that have been soiled by oil tanker spills and ones that have inadvertently gotten on a freighter and ended up out of their natural range....

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Dee Boersma highlighted in Washington Post article on penguins' role as environmental indicators