Can I read Peter, Pamela and Percy in the Big Spill on EtoBox?

Peter, Pamela and Percy in the Big Spill by Lulu, (Writer of children's literature); Tee, (Illustrator of children's literature) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Peter, Pamela and Percy in the Big Spill about?

This book is based on the true story of the ship the 'Treasure', which sank in June 2000 just north of Cape Town, and caused a huge oil slick (1300 tonnes of oil) that harmed thousands of sea birds. People came from far and near to help rescue the penguins in an enormous clean-up operation driven by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, the Avian Demography Unit at UCT, SANCCOB and WWF amongst others. About 16000 penguins were rescued in total, of those about 1600 were oiled. The clean penguins were shipped from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth by truck to swim back to Cape Town (with some luck, because no one knew for sure what they would do, but they were counting on their strong homing instinct) in order to buy time to clean the beaches and the sea. The whole of South Africa plotted the progress of the 3 rescued penguins, Peter, Pamela and Percy, who were equipped with tracking devices (provided by SAP Southern Africa), as they swam home to Cape Town

Author

Lulu, (Writer of children's literature); Tee, (Illustrator of children's literature)

Publisher

Linda Fellowes / African Penguin

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780620410465