Seaside Aquarium Overhauls Record-Keeping After Lost Penguin Feeding Logs

A volunteer accidentally overwrote a coastal aquarium's penguin feeding spreadsheet, erasing three weeks of entries that went unnoticed for days. The folder had no clear owner or alerts, and water chemistry records for quarantine tanks were scattered with no clear accountability. Staff spent a weekend reconstructing data from printed sheets and memory. The article argues that such informal storage poses risks to animal welfare and regulatory compliance. It recommends encryption, access controls, audit logging, and versioning as safeguards against similar losses.
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