Green | November 14, 2010 | 25 comments

Sea Turtles Forever

source: http://www.youtube.com/user/seaturtlesforever

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Here is a link to my friend's YouTube website. Marc Ward is an authorized Marine Turtle Investigator who has spent many, many days trying to save sea turtles from extinction. The Sea Turtles Forever site on YouTube documents some of the organization's work, which includes collecting and analyzing tons of plastic debris that has washed ashore on the west coast of North America and Central America. Please visit this link and send it to all of your friends so that we might raise awareness and work together to save marine animals from death by plastic.

http://www.youtube.com/user/seaturtlesforever
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25 comments // Sea Turtles Forever

  • seaturtlers007
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    • The work we are doing is focused on marine turtle research,changing socio/cultural habits and creating an alternative to eating wildlife in rural underprivledged areas of high biological importance to the plannet. Poaching can drive any species to extinction and through protection patrols, creation of livelyhoods, and education we have been making great progress re-establishing endangered stocks of marine turtles to the West Coast, using protocols we have developed over the last 12 years in the field. We do so much work in conservation it takes a long time for newbees to get a grasp on all the programs we run and understand our holistic approach to managing endangered wildlife. Check out the " Punta Pargos Project" for starters --- we hatched out over 10,000 marine turtles that would have been eaten last season, just for one accomplishment. We need sponsors and volunteers to help keep our programs alive, that is the catch. We have been funded by the Marine Conservation Action Fund of The New England Aquarium for two years but will lose that sponsor next season due to funding protocols. Our patrollers work for $50 per week protecting the nesting area from armed poachers ( machetes/spearguns), that is a small price to pay for our marine turtles but is a good wage for the struggleing fishermen and locals we pay to help monitor the nesting area. That wage creates social balance and an alternative to eating the turtles/eggs, if you are starving you eat whatever is in front of you and you have to understand that some of these poachers are starving, we work with compassion and understanding to ease the necessary changes into our area and try to create goodwill among all stakeholders if possible. Check our film clips on youtube for a lok at some of the dynamics on our project on Punta Pargos.

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  • Incredulous
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  • MrMxyzptlk
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      Progresshiv  
    • MrMxyzptlk:

      You're not far from the truth. The plastic garbage in the oceans gets ground up by the sea and sand, toxins leach out, and animals eat the small bits of polystyrene, polyethylene, PVC, and polypropylene. The "microplastic" bits become part of the food chain, and we are the ultimate recipients of those small particles. They do their toxic work in our blood, executing us with cancer.

    • 1 year ago
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  • Dmerza1989
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  • Incredulous
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    • They actually have a sea turtle preserve in the Cayman Islands...I took a lot of pictures when I was there, but they eat them in the islands....not all of them, but they are raised for food too. They have some really interesting, very old species there, but it's kind of like a zoo, you know, they are pretty safe in the preserve, but not as much once they turn them loose. Here's a pool of babies. Awesome work your friend is doing...

    • 1 year ago
  • Progresshiv
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    • Incredulous:

      Interesting. Thank you! He is pretty tired after having traveled so much the past few month. Today he received word that one of the nests his group has been watching in Costa Rica has started to have hatchlings emerge. He was anxious to get back there to help protect the little turtles from poachers.

    • 1 year ago
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