Save Penguins and Threatened Wildlife at Earth’s Remotest Places
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Tristan da Cunha, the world’s remotest inhabited island, is located in the South Atlantic
On March 16, 2011, a horrific environmental disaster occurred at the most remote inhabited island group in the world, Tristan da Cunha, that threatened the second largest concentration of seabirds in the world.
Marine scientist Dr. David E. Guggenheim, president of Ocean Doctor, was aboard a ship that received a distress call from a Maltese freighter that had run aground at Nightingale Island. The catastrophic oil spill that ensued was captured on film, and Dr. Guggenheim has turned that footage into a film that explores this tragedy and others like it, as a warning signal and call to action to prevent future tragedies and prepare local managers for any that might occur.
The beloved Northern Rockhopper penguin has declined 90 percent over the past 50 years and is now an endangered species