Penguins in trouble worldwide

Penguins in trouble worldwide

In Carol Kaesuk Yoon’s (2001) article, “Penguins in trouble worldwide,” she writes about both the facts that many species of penguins are endangered by some pollution, and how to solve the problem. First, she mentions that there are many disappearing penguins, even if they are different species. She adds there are already over half of all penguin species on the threatened or endangered lists. And, she explains that penguins are endangered by climate change, overfishing and oil spills. She claims that their lovely appearance and people’s attentions can be solutions of the problem. She says that the toxic iron can be one of the causes of temperature change of the ocean, also. According to her article, melting glacier is real problem for the decline of penguins’ population, in fact. However, she claims that the problem can be overcome by attracting people’s attention with their cute appearance. She gives some examples such as safeguarding them with money from tourists and movements by companies.

In fact, the problem about the threat to penguins has been mentioned for a long time. Although there are many causes of the problem, especially, global warming is one of the huge causes that is not easy to settle. Because it is an enormous problem, it is the great way that tourists and some companies can help the endangered penguins. So, it is necessary to get help from individuals and big commercial companies to solve the problem, and we need to think about the solution on the world level, also.

First of all, any help individuals can provide is necessary to save the endangered penguins. It is not really important whether their help is big or small. For example, you can help the penguins only by reducing the use of your own private car, because it causes global warming with some toxic gas. Even though it is not directly related to saving the threatened penguins, it does not make global warming worse. Otherwise, if you have enough money to donate for the treatment of the penguins injured by either global warming or any accident, donation to any animal association can be one of the great helps. Whatever you do, these things can help penguins to survive and to be treated.

Second, help of the commercial companies such as advertisements and donations is also significant in a recovery of a bad environment. In this case, there can be two different types of aid. First, it is possible to encourage people’s movement, which is connected with individual real life, to change their everyday lifestyles. If one company tries to promote the movement with advertisement about helping the endangered penguins and it is successful, the company can make an enormous number of people think about the problem with only one advertisement. The second way is that the company directly donates to other associations related to penguins. With donating their money, the company can help the endangered animal, and also gets the effect of good public relations

Finally, countries in the world have to think of the problem as their own problem. That is, it is possible to recover the clean environment when a lot of countries are connected to solving the problem. Because the world is not separated, all countries are responsible for recovering the environment and saving the endangered animals such as penguins. So, all countries should join together to protect not only the endangered penguins, but also any kinds of threatened animals. Moreover, the governments of the countries have to control their industrial factories, whether they cause global warming or not. It will be helpful in the future to stop global warming.

In conclusion, it is necessary for saving penguins to encourage people and commercial companies to pay attention and to donate for saving penguins. Additionally, getting all countries to work together is also important. Before you criticize environmental problems such as global warming, it would be helpful for the endangered animal if you think about what you can do for them in your situation. In the future, if our descendants cannot see the lovely penguins, it will be considered one of the biggest of our faults. We are responsible for preserving our earth with a clean environment. If we try to preserve our environment, this kind of problem will disappear in our life.

Reference

Yoon, C. (2001, June 26). Penguins in trouble worldwide. The New York Times. Retrieved November 26, 2007 from http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DB1030F935A15755C0A9679C8B63