Dee Boersma Quotes

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

- Dee Boersma

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It's been going on for decades and it's having a long-term negative effect on wildlife. Penguins can live a long time with oil, but that's not true of most seabirds. Our findings appear to be just the tip of the iceberg. - Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands. - Dee Boersma

I'm certainly not at all convinced that the Galapagos penguin is going to go extinct because of this. But I am concerned that the numbers are going to become increasingly low, and we know that with smaller populations they're just more vulnerable to extinction. - Dee Boersma