The Flight of the Penguins

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/08/rescued.penguins/index.html

In this article the animal activists rescued 373 magellanic penguins that were stranded after searching for food. They flew the penguins on a C-130 military plane back to an animal shelter, where the penguins were cared for and fed. Then they were released back into the wild in Brazil. According to scientists, these penquins would not have harmed the poluation of the magellanic penguins, so man was not preventing an extinction. As much as I love penguins, my question is does man-kind have the right to intervene in nature? Should we interrupt and change the lives of other living beings without even thinking twice about it? Will our actions cause a butterfly affect? What if these penguins, now introduced to care and being looked after, do not hunt as hard, disrupting the food chain, because they think that man will come and save them again? What if these penguins will now become easier prey for other animals, and mess up the food change? Do we have the right to do as we please without thinking about the repercussions?

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