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Meet Dyan deNapoli, The “Ultimate Penguin Lady” Who Saved The Life of 20,000 Penguins During Great Penguin Rescue
Every year on April 25, World Penguin Day is celebrated all over the globe. This day presents a good opportunity to provide awareness about the penguin species and the challenges that they face for their survival including retreating polar ice and depleting stocks of krill.
In honour of this great occasion, Dyan deNapoli who is popularly known as “The Penguin Lady” tells us about her hard work that she did in saving the lives of nearly 20,000 penguins during a rescue operation that took 20 years ago.
All the penguins were transported safely after a massive oil spill from the bulk carrier Treasure north of Cape Town, South Africa during 2 July 2000. Not only this, but she has also explained about her experience of saving so many birds during this rescue operation and what all did she faced during this phase.
Now, let me tell you about her ‘Penguin Rescue’ experience:
Sinking off a cargo ship creates an oil spill
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It was during summers of 2000 when she has got an urgent call from South Africa from the manager of SANCCOB, a seabird rescue centre in South Africa, Cape Town. The manager told that the Penguins were in trouble due to the oil spill happened in the region due to the sinking off a cargo ship in the ocean off the coast in Cape Town.
Nearly 1300 tons of fuel oil flown into Robben Island which is the primary habit of penguins. The oil has covered 20,000 penguins.
It was after that SANCCOB has announced the launch to carry out a rescue operation to save the life of all the penguins that were badly oiled by the thick and toxic oil. Even, there were 1000s of volunteers who were up for help but they couldn’t d anything as they had no experience.
After 2 days, she boarded the plane to South Africa to take part in this biggest ever Penguin Rescue operation.
A deadly silence of penguin
via: Thepenguinlady/ Twitter
A large warehouse had been converted into a rescue centre for the oiled penguins outside the Cape Town. The rescuers had also set up so many makeup shift pools which had the ability to hold 100 oiled birds at once.
She told when she stepped into the building, she couldn’t believe what she saw there. Nothing except the voices of people she could hear. The penguins were like dead silent. At that moment, she felt so much overwhelmed.
Her heart ached for those distressed birds and cleaning them looked like an almost neatly impossible task at that moment. But, all the volunteers including her were treating them like doctors in an emergency room.
How did she manage to clean oiled penguins?
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Cleaning them wasn’t easy. The birds were sprayed with a degreaser and scrubbed with warm, soapy water. Then they were rinsed under a hose. Almost it took around an hour to go through the whole process. Do you know it took a month to bathe all the 20,000 birds at the centre in spite of having 12,500 volunteers?
The oil spill began to spread which led to another crisis
Saving thousands of oiled penguins is hard to do when you’re so #distractinglysexy in your enormous green oilskins… pic.twitter.com/3GtbMsgSxO
— Dyan deNapoli (@thepenguinlady) June 11, 2015
Oil from the spill had started to spread north towards Dassen Island. It had become almost impossible to save a number of birds as they already have 20,000 penguins in their hand. This is because they do not have enough resource to save them.
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To move out of the situation, one researcher suggested moving all the penguins from Dassen Island to Port Elizabeth. And you know what the plan worked and all the penguins swam home safely which also removed their oil and they were saved luckily.
It was one of the biggest ever penguin rescue operation in history
The entire penguin rescue operation took almost 3 months. It was hard for them to believe that they have managed to save such a huge number of birds from such a horrible incident. What was most inspiring for me was the hard work of volunteers.
She said, “As the Penguin Lady, I’m used to facing such hazards to care for the animals I love. What I didn’t realize was how many other people care for penguins too”.
#Penguin smackdown in #Antarctica! Think penguins are sweet? Think again! Fights often break out during breeding season over mates or nests. pic.twitter.com/dp7rtIljji
— Dyan deNapoli (@thepenguinlady) January 16, 2017
News source: Guinness World Records
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Always Listen To Your Heart: 7 YouTube Stars Who Followed Their Passion and Became Millionaires
YouTube has become people’s frenzy these days. It’s one social network that is best known for entertainment and educational channels. Uploading a video on YouTube is just a cake walk. But we are going to introduce you with 7 YouTube stars, who published their skills, the talent on YouTube in order to pursue their passion. Guess what? – They are amongst the world’s millionaires now.
Read on to unfold the whole story.
1. Ian Andrew Hecox and Daniel Anthony Padilla: Smosh
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‘Smosh’ is known for a sketch comedy act based on Pokémon games. Ian Andrew Hecox and Daniel Anthony Padilla are childhood best friends and founder of the channel. They rose to fame with 6 billion views and over 22 million subscribers. Smosh is still a hit on YouTube.
2. PewDiePie
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Name sure twists your tongue but the whole story might just blow your mind. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie has 49 million subscribers. And this one beats Rihanna’s Vevo account. This hot-dog seller followed his passion and made a successful career out of it. Truly very inspiring!
3. Lilly Singh
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Her story is truly inspiring as she started making videos while struggling with depression. The Canadian girl started making videos full of sarcasms on her ethnic Punjabi culture and regular daily life issues. She made a big fortune out of her passion and depression.
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4. Michelle Phan
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Michelle released her official makeup video in 2010. You will be surprised to know that she is a self-taught beauty expert. She also co-founded a beauty product subscription service called Ipsy. Its value is over $500 million.
5. Rosanna Pansino
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Her passion for baking made her a YouTube star. She simply followed her grandmothers recipes and her show called “Nerdy Nummies”, became extensively popular on YouTube. She then went on to publish her cookbook which was featured on the New York Times bestsellers’ list.
6. Fine Brothers
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Benny and Rafi fine uploaded funny videos that went viral. Their channel became so popular that it earned them a TV show with Nickelodeon.
You can also read: Top 6 Popular Indian YouTube Celebrities With Highest Number of Subscribers
7. Lindsey Stirling
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You will be amazed to know that Stirling, a performance artist, violinist, was initially rejected by a record company. She found success through her YouTube channel which won her the 2015 Billboard Music Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Album.
India is a country or miracles, it is full of people who will surprise you in unknown ways. As the country is trying had to bridge the gap between being a developing and developed country, we expect its people to come up with extraordinary ideas to help the economy. And here we are with yet another extraordinary story that will almost blow your mind. Bhavin Turakhia and Divyank Turakhia, two college drop-out brothers, who managed to built business empires. Yes, its “empires” because they established not just one but 11 companies together.
Read the whole story of the Turakhia brothers who have no chills when it comes to business.
Mumbai based Turakhia brothers have always had it in their mind to do something big even when they were just teenagers. It seems they were gifted with genius minds, as they joined B.com program but they used to skip college in order to learn to code.
Divyank Turkhia loved to code so much that he soon built his first game with his brother that would monitor the price of the stock exchange. They never used to really attend college and would rather stay home, doing their own inventions.
Soon enough they started their first company Directi together in 1998, with the investment of 25,000 which they borrowed from their father. When the first company was found, Bhavin was 18 and Divyank was merely 16 years old. Directi is a web hosting company that provides website domains and internet related services to other companies.
via: Inc42 /Bhavin Turakhia
And it was just the beginning, they started with one and ended up 11 companies under the banner Directi. They made big money out of them and even bigger when they decided to sell five companies.
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In 2014 they sold four of their companies to US-based web hosting company Endurance International Group for $160 million. After selling Reseller Club, Logic Boxes, Bigrock and Webhosting(dot)info it took them four more years to sell the other one called Media(dot)net.
They sold Media(dot)net to a Chinese company for $900 million, this was the biggest ad-tech deal ever.
In 2016, Divyank and Bhavin were listed by the Forbes magazine under the list of India’s Richest persons. Not only that they were awarded as Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum in 2011. Also, Bharti Foundation presented them with Bharti Entrepreneur of the Year, in 2005.
via: Forbes India / Divyank Turkhia
Turakhia brothers have proved that passion gets you to the highest dream, only if it is combined with dedication. They started at a very young age and made a name and money globally. Today, Bhavin is running four companies: Ringo Software, Zeta, Radix and Flock, and Directi have over 1000 employees and 10 million customers globally.
Talking about their wealth, both have them properties worth 10,000 crores each. They made a huge name for themselves in the tech world. We hope they keep flourishing and inspiring young Indians the same way. They are both a testimony of the saying that ‘where there is will there is a way’.
You can also read: Success Story Of Nidhi and Shekhar Singh: Making Healthy Money By Selling Samosa
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With Hope To Do Something Good For World, 8 Inspiring Individuals Who Are Using Social Media For All The Right Reasons
Being active on social media is not a big thing, everybody seems to be online everybody, seems to have his own Facebook, Instagram or YouTube account. But do we actually know why we are using social media or the social platform at all? It seems that people are oblivious of the causes and consequences of social media, there might be some good consequences of using social media if you have a good desire to do something for the world.
Sincerely and positively you can use social media to invent change the world, and leave us there are people who are doing the same there are some individuals around the world who are using social media and social web platforms to change the world; they have this obsession of being something useful to this world.
This is high time we should learn about them and try using social media not just to make fancy pictures or upload some useless videos. We should use it as a tool to shape society.
1. Anupama Dalmia
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The award-winning blogger took a step further and used social media as an essential tool to help other people. She is a counselor, entrepreneur and a great influencer. She thinks with the help of the social media one can be the voice of needy and reach out the to maximum people. And this is what she does, too.
2. Natasha Noel
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Natasha is a believer, who believes in humanity. She focuses on keeping her body fit and help others to do the same. She inspires people to love their body and keeping them fit. She uses social media to propagate love and kindness. She posts, blogs inspire her followers to embrace life with all its harmony. The reason for her to use social media is to convey a good and healthy message to society.
3. Aditi Gupta
Aditi is an example of greatness. She is dedicated to educating the society about the menstrual cycle and female hygiene. She goes to schools, villages and educates everyone about menstruation. She was initially criticized for doing the same but that couldn’t stop her from keep going. She uses social media to reach out to the maximum number of people and make them comfortable to talk about periods. To educate girls she even launched a comic book about menstruation.
4. Neelima Vallangi
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Neelima is an award-winning travel writer. She quit her job in order to do what she doing i.e spreading love and joy. She travels the world and lives with the locals. She shows the world the true picture of villagers and the local life around us. Her expeditions are not about making Instagram worth pictures and story, but she shares the stories and pictures that make social media worthy.
You can also read: 7 Awesome Female Solo Travel Bloggers Who Can Give You The Best Travel Advice
5. Rashi Vidyasagar
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Rashi is a true inspiration for everyone out there in the world. She works at White Swan Foundation and endeavors to spread awareness about mental health. She works in the areas of women mental health and crime against women as she is a criminologist and feminist, too.
She believes that people should be aware of female mental health and not take as granted. Her social media posts are good enough to jolt your entire thought processes and make you think about women and their needs to be understood.
6. Rushabh Turakhia
We can spread the message of kindness, compassion n humanity but we can’t do it without you!Pls RT @thebetterindia pic.twitter.com/ABifOG8yaY
— YOUR TURN NOW (@yourturnnow_in) December 27, 2015
Rushabh is on a mission to make the world a better place to live by encouraging people to spread kindness. His foundation “Your Turn Now” endeavors to spread awareness that each one of us should be kind towards others. He is making the best use of social media, to do the same.
7. Paromita Bardoloi
#GettingToEqual @womensweb pic.twitter.com/EGTI40aAE7
— Paromita Bardoloi (@ParomitaBardolo) February 26, 2019
An inspiring poet, writer, artist and what not. Paromita is someone who knows to raise the voice of the right cause. She raises an issue that needs to be raised without any hesitation and makes sure that it reaches the right audience. Her posts are inspiring enough to make you wonder about the cause. Her words have power with which she triggers the issues through social media to reach out to the maximum people.
8. Larissa D’ Sa
Youtuber Larissa is a very creative individual who uses social media to encourage people to be creative. She shares a lot of DIYs, beauty, home decor, and other such ideas and encourages others to do the same. It’s her positive approach that makes her different and truly inspiring.
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