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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection estimates that if the dam failed it would affect 50, people and has mandated that coal ash cannot be added to the lake after The Little Blue Run Coal Ash Impoundment is unlined and has over time leaked pollution into the local ground and surface water, which local families rely on for consumption, cooking, and bathing.

Some local residents worry for their health because of this pollution. In addition to the water concerns, families living near the site worry about toxic dust and a strong rotten egg smell that many people believe is associated with hydrogen sulfide. At least three lawsuits against FirstEnergy have been filed. The first action was a notice of intent to sue letter filed by The Environmental Integrity Project and Public Justice on May 30th The leaks from the Impoundment allowed Boron, Manganese, sulfate, arsenic, and other pollutants to discharge into local water sources.

On day 59 of a 60 day notice of intent to sue waiting period, The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection PADEP , filed the first ever state lawsuit for a coal ash disposal site. This state action was taken against FirstEnergy because the Little Blue Run Impoundment caused a potential "imminent and substantial endangerment" to human health and the environment.

The consent decree "The consent decree requires First Energy to submit a plan to close the plant by the end of The second lawsuit was a federal lawsuit by 15 Beaver County residents and 36 West Virginia residents who accused FirstEnergy of contaminating groundwater and leaking hazardous waste like arsenic , sulfates , sodium , calcium , magnesium and chloride [2] into local waterways and groundwater systems.

On land, little penguins are vulnerable to attack from domestic and feral dogs and cats.

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Attacks on Kangaroo Island, [52] at Manly [51] in Tasmania [53] and in New Zealand [55] have resulted in significant impacts to several populations. Management strategies to mitigate the risk of attack include establishing dog-free zones near penguin colonies and introducing regulations to ensure dogs to remain on leashes at all times in adjacent areas.

Little penguins on Middle Island off Warrnambool, Victoria were subject to heavy predation by foxes , which were able to reach the island at low tide by a tidal sand bridge. The deployment of Maremma sheepdogs to protect the penguin colony has deterred the foxes and enabled the penguin population to rebound.

The first Maremma sheepdog to prove the concept was Oddball, whose story inspired a feature film of the same name, released in They are the sixth and seventh dogs to be used and a new puppy is being trained up [ In Sydney, snipers have been deployed to protect a colony of little penguins. Little penguins are diurnal and like many penguin species, spend the largest part of their day swimming and foraging at sea.

During the breeding and chick-rearing seasons, little penguins leave their nest at sunrise, forage for food throughout the day and return to their nests just after dusk. Thus, sunlight, moonlight and artificial lights can affect the behaviour of attendance to the colony. They do this by rubbing a tiny drop of oil onto every feather from a special gland above the tail.

These birds feed by hunting small clupeoid fish, cephalopods and crustaceans , for which they travel and dive quite extensively. Sardines previously featured more prominently in southern Australian little penguin diets prior to mass sardine mortality events of the s.

These mass mortality events affected sardine stocks over 5, kilometres of coastline. They are generally inshore feeders. Recent studies have shown a new species of feather mite that feeds on the preening oil on the feathers of the penguin.

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Little penguins mature at different ages. The female matures at 2 years old. The male, however, matures at 3 years old. Little penguins only remain faithful to their partner in breeding seasons and whilst hatching eggs. At other times of the year they do tend to swap burrows. They exhibit site fidelity to their nesting colonies and nesting sites over successive years. Little penguins can breed as isolated pairs, in colonies, or semi-colonially.

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They are monogamous within a breeding season, and share incubating and chick-rearing duties. They are the only species of penguin capable of producing more than one clutch of eggs per breeding season, but few populations do so. The timing of breeding seasons varies across the species' range.

Vincent , eggs are laid between April and October. The one or two white or lightly mottled brown eggs are laid with rarer second or even third clutches following.

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Incubation takes up to 36 days. Chicks are brooded for 18—38 days and fledge after 7—8 weeks. Vincent, chicks are raised from June through November.

Little penguins typically return to their colonies to feed their chicks at dusk. The birds tend to come ashore in small groups to provide some defence against predators, which might pick off individuals one by one. In Australia, the strongest colonies are usually on cat-free and fox-free islands. However, the population on Granite Island which is a fox, cat and dog-free island has been severely depleted, from around penguins in down to in Little penguins have long been a curiosity to humans, and to children in particular.

Captive animals are often exhibited in zoos. Historically, the animals have also been used as bait to catch Southern rock lobster , captured for amusement and eaten by ship-wrecked sailors and castaways to avoid starvation. These locations also often provide facilities and volunteer staff to support population surveys, habitat improvement works and little penguin research programs.

At Phillip Island , Victoria, a viewing area has been established at the Phillip Island Nature Park to allow visitors to view the nightly "penguin parade". Lights and concrete stands have been erected to allow visitors to see but not photograph or film the birds this is because it can blind or scare them interacting in their colony. In Bicheno , Tasmania , evening penguin viewing tours are offered by a local tour operator at a rookery on private land.

South of Perth , Western Australia , visitors to Penguin Island are able to view penguin feeding within a penguin rehabilitation centre and may also encounter wild penguins ashore in their natural habitat. The island is accessible via a short passenger ferry ride, and visitors depart the island before dusk to protect the colony from disturbance. In the Otago , New Zealand town of Oamaru , visitors may view the birds returning to their colony at dusk.

More recently, little penguin viewing facilities have been established at Pilots Beach on the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin , New Zealand. Here visitors are guided by volunteer wardens to watch penguins returning to their burrows at dusk. Several efforts have been made to improve breeding sites on Kangaroo Island, including augmenting habitat with artificial burrows and revegetation work.

The Knox School 's habitat restoration efforts were filmed and broadcast in by Totally Wild. In early March, , 25 of the 37 penguins died from an unknown toxin following a change of gravel in their enclosure. The penguins are one of three species on exhibit and are part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ' Species Survival Plan for little blue penguins. Linus Torvalds , the original creator of Linux a popular operating system kernel , was once pecked by a little penguin while on holiday in Australia. Reportedly, this encounter encouraged Torvalds to select Tux as the official Linux mascot.

A Linux kernel programming challenge called the Eudyptula Challenge [] has attracted thousands of persons; its creator s use the name "Little Penguin". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the extinct penguin genus, see Korora. For the Korora Linux operating system, see Korora operating system. List of little penguin colonies. Little penguins in the wild calling, Dunedin, New Zealand. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November Archived from the original on 16 December Retrieved 25 November Little Blue Penguins - Eudyptula minor".

International Penguin Conservation Work Group. Retrieved 17 July An unexpected pattern of molecular divergence within the blue penguin Eudyptula minor complex. Paul; Waters, Jonathan M. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Retrieved 11 May Retrieved 8 May Retrieved 17 September Babel Island Group, Tasmania". Atlas of Australian Birds.

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