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And on thin ice. A new march 행진 of the penguins. This time, to the endangered species 멸종위기에 놓인 종 list. From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson.

 

Never mind that the penguins are incredibly cute or that Happy Feet is the best selling DVD of the last year or that two years ago March of the Penguins won an Academy Award for best documentary. An environmental group called the Center for Biological Diversity wants to use them to make a point 주장<생각>을 밝히다. “If we can save the penguins, then perhaps we’ve chosen a path that will save ourselves as well.”

 

The group says penguins are dying out 차차 소멸하다 in large part because their food supply is reduced by warming oceans. Never mind that they only live in the icy waters near the South Pole, if the group can get them protected by the US Endangered Species Act, they say it’ll send an important message about the global problem of climate change. “Penguins are both a symbol and a casualty 피해자 of a much wider problem that we have with global warming and that we really must address 다루다, 처리하다 immediately.”

 

Now the group fully 완전히, 전적으로 grants 인정하다 that getting the penguins protected would not change a lot on a practical level. The only place that you’ll find penguins in any numbers are places like a zoo such as this one in New York. Rob Gramsey and his colleagues were feeding them this afternoon while little kids pressed their noses to the window. “Penguins are among, I’d say, our most popular animals next to the polar bears and the sea lions 바다사자.”

 

The activists hope to leverage ~에 영향력을 미치다 the penguin’s popularity. People care about ~에 관심을 가지다 those funny overdressed birds. And getting them protected would not only be good for them, but for the rest of the world, too. Ned Potter, ABC News, New York.

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