Penguin-Pedia

Just in time for Penguin Awareness Day is the arrival at Penguin Place of what may be the definitive all-penguin publication of this generation.  Penguin-Pedia, a 312 page hardcover homage to penguins and everything penguins.  Written by David Salomon, a real estate developer from Dallas, TX, who spent 2 summers traveling the southern hemisphere to photograph all 17 species of penguin.  Mr. Salomon’s goal in writing Penguin-Pedia was to increase penguin interest and awareness by creating the most comprehensive penguin book to date, while also making it enjoyable to look at and easy to read.  It covers all extant species, each with its own chapter broken up into 16 different sections that focus on individual aspects of that species’ life, along with charts of specific information on each species’ diet, calendar, measurements and other numeric data.   To encourage penguin fans to go see penguins for themselves, Mr. Salomon has included a section called “Where to Find a Penguin,” which contains both a list of penguin colonies in the wild and a list of zoo and aquarium exhibits around the world. All photographs in the book are Mr. Salomon’s own, and there are even a dozen trip suggestions to locations such as South Africa , The Galapagos Islands, and The Falkland Islands. Penguin-Pedia.  What the penguin loving world has been looking for.

The Penguin News

The Penguin Post has learned that there’s a namesake publication located on a small pair of islands off the coast of Argentina, and it’s called The Penguin News.  The first copies of The Penguin News went on sale 33 years ago. Founder Graham Bound sensed that the British administered islands with a population of about 3000 needed a new voice and in response The Penguin News was created.  It has, save for a few rare silences (such as during the Falkland’s War in 1982), been with us ever since.   To date, seven different editors have been at the helm of the paper with numerous deputy editors, columnists and typists contributing over the years.  Of course over the years with an indigenous penguin population about 100 times the human population there have been plenty of penguin related articles.  The Falklands have become a major tourist destination for penguin lovers,  but if you read the paper you’ll realize there’s lots more going on in this wonderfully fascinating corner of the world.

March With The Penguin In The Falklands

This story from the Financial Times via The Penguin Post.

Falkland Island Penguins Threatened

Conservationists in the Falkland Islands, only 700 miles north from mainland Antarctica, have launched a plan to monitor climate change on the island’s penguin population.
The Falklands are home to at least four types of penguins, Rockhoppers, Magellanics, Gentoos, and King penguins. The island attracts thousands of tourists every year, and many of them come for the islands penguins, who are a vital facet of the local economy.
Conservationists fear that penguin colonies are under threat as climate change depletes sources of food. Starvation killed some 100 King penguin chicks in 2009. Under the plan, conservationists will count every bird in a bid to determine how to preserve the colonies.

Adopting Penguins In The Falklands

Interested in Penguins?  Then the Falklands  Conservation is for you.  This charitable organization has assumed the responsibility of looking after the spectacular environment of the Falkland Islands, which is a very unique place located in the South Atlantic.  Renowned for it’s various penguin populations . The Falklands Conservation and their website offers a complete overview of these penguin loving islands and their people and even offers you the opportunity  to adopt a penguin or two all for a great cause.