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Perspective

By Dr. Michael J. Adkesson
President & CEO, Chicago Zoological Society
Director, Brookfield Zoo

uring a weekend last February, I joined a team of Chicago Zoological
Society scientists at the Punta San Juan marine reserve in Peru.

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there was devastating to see first-hand; scores of sick and dying pelicans,
Guanay cormorants, and sea lions.

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