Freedom for Miss Simpson, the penguin found 2,000km from home

A Snares penguin from islands south of New Zealand is found wounded on a Tasmanian beach. Nine months' nursing later, she tastes the open sea againJust before dawn on a still morning in autumn a crowd of people gathers on a beach in southern Tasmania. They watch in tense silence as a small animal shuffles across the sand. This animal, a penguin, has been the focus of nine months of care, liaison and cooperation to get to this moment - she is being released and sent back out into her world. I am privileged to be included in the farewell crew, and share the jubilation and anxiety of the people around me, all of us hoping that she will remember her path home. Continue reading...