What should you do if you find baby sea turtles on the beach?
If you ever find a baby sea turtle, it is important not to pick it up. Instead, you should try to contact any local authorities or organizations that work in sea turtle conservation. They will be able to provide direct advice and can likely send a team to help. However, if you do not know who to contact, then the best advice is to stay behind the turtle to not block its view of the ocean, otherwise it will not know which way to crawl. You can also use your body and any other object to create shade for the turtle. During the day, the sand can be dangerously hot for a hatchling.
What is a TurtleCam?
A TurtleCam is a device we built to discover more about the secret lives of turtles. Essentially, it is like a head-mounted GoPro but for a sea turtle. With these devices, we can get a first-person (or should it be first-turtle?) perspective on how these animals see the world around them. These TurtleCams are helping us learn more about what sea turtles eat, where they live, and what threats they face. We are even getting information on how turtles interact with each other—in other words, we are studying their social lives!
What should young people do if they are interested in ocean conservation?
My biggest recommendation for any young people interested in getting involved in ocean conservation is to volunteer. There are countless organizations working in ocean conservation worldwide, and they need your help! So do your research, find out which volunteer organizations are working in the areas that interest you the most, and get in contact.
About Nathan Robinson:
Nathan Robinson is a marine biologist and science communicator. His research focuses on using new technologies to answer important ecological questions while simultaneously raising awareness about the threats facing our oceans. Nathan first began following this career path after a video of him removing a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nose helped ignite a global movement to combat plastic pollution in our oceans. He has since moved to several other exciting projects, including using animal-borne cameras to investigate the secret lives of sea turtles and capturing the first-ever footage of a giant squid in US waters. He hopes that his work will help engage global audiences in marine science and provide the impetus we need to keep protecting our ocean planet.
You can follow his work online.
Acknowledgments
To my wonderful readers—the enthusiastic ones I’ve had the privilege of meeting on my book tours and the ones I interact with on social media—I don’t know what I ever did to deserve your immense love and support. Thank you.
Thank you to my mom and dad. Thank you to Vivienne To and Jessie Gang, who were with me through this entire journey. It has been such a pleasure working with you both over the years. Thank you to my editor, David Linker, my copyeditor, Christina MacDonald, and to Alison Klapthor, Alexandra Rakaczki, and all the fantastic folks at HarperCollins I’ve gotten to work with on this series. I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to Maddie Lansbury, who not only provided the runes again for this book, but also helped me close way too many plot holes I created in the first book when I didn’t quite know what the series was going to turn into. Thank you to the best Twitch mods in the universe, Ursulas-Revenge and GalacticMermaidAdventures. I also want to thank one of my intrepid readers, Evan, who guessed where this book was headed and gave me some inspiration as well! And to my incomparable Papa Ford, who passed away last year at age 100—I wish you had been able to read the last book in the series.
I would also like to thank my generous pawtrons from patreon.com/StacyPlays—your support means the world to me, thank you: Adrien W., Ali S., Anhmye T., Austin A., Bree C., Brian C., Carl C. & Family, Carson F., Charlotte S., Chris H., Cierra D., Claudia R., Curtis H., Dan M., Devin C., Dez W., Emily L., Emily W., Erika D., Eris J., the Fobare family, the Foster family, the Garmon sisters, Haydon M., James F., Jaya H., Jessica S., John M., Judd C., Kim & Mars, Kelsey C., Laura A., Leo B., LG Beavers, Libby T., Logan B., Luis R., Luna I., Maddie M., Marc G., Marta F., Matthias W., Mataya E., the McKenna-Lok family, Michael C., Moira C., Piper N., Renée M., Sam T., Samantha W., Scarlet J., Spencer E., Sugar R., Tasha C., Thor & Freya, Travis O., the Trundy family, and the Woodbury family.
Thank you for reading my books. I hope you enjoyed them. Please be a guardian of the forest and a sentinel of the ocean. Page and Molly love you; go rescue a dog!
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STACY HINOJOSA, better known as StacyPlays on the internet, started playing Minecraft in 2012. She immediately fell in love with telling stories through video games and began posting them to YouTube. Her imaginative building series and fun-filled adventures with her wolf pack earned her a loyal audience of over 2 million subscribers. Stacy splits her time between the mountains of northern Utah and the desert in southern Utah with her dog, Molly, and her cats, Milquetoast and Pipsqueak (all rescued by her, of course).
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WILD RESCUERS: SENTINELS IN THE DEEP OCEAN. Text copyright © 2021 by Stacy Plays LLC. Map illustration copyright © 2021 by Virginia Allyn. Interior illustrations copyright © 2021 by Vivienne To. Rune illustrations by Madeline Lansbury copyright © 2021 by Stacy Plays LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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