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This is Christine
Christine is a Marine Conservation Biologist who took part in setting the global anti-plastic movement in motion, while fighting for the survival and protection of sea turtles.
She is working on the ground to protect nesting sea turtles and their eggs from people who steal and sell them and studies the migratory behavior of sea turtles out at sea to better understand their biology.
With your help
Christine can get local assistants and much needed equipment and tools to continue keeping nesting sea turtles and their babies safe and to learn more about their behavior out at sea.
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Why care
Only about 1 out of 1000 baby sea turtles make it to adulthood. The ones that make it are threatened by fishing bycatch, poaching for their eggs, meat and shell. If they manage to survive those things, they are threatened by yet something else - plastic pollution.
The work
Christine is a Marine Biologist dedicated to the conservation of sea turtles.
Works to increase the number of adult sea turtles by decreasing the number of turtles dying and increasing the number of sea turtle babies that survive.
To do this, Christine works on nesting beaches to protect nesting mothers and their eggs from poachers and other human disturbances.
She also identifies areas in the ocean that are important for sea turtles for feeding by tracking them with satellite transmitters that show where they go after they have nested. After that she maps the areas to know where to focus protection efforts.
She organizes beach cleanups with local communities to remove plastic pollution that clutters sea turtle nesting beaches.
Last year established a new hawksbill turtle conservation and research project on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Achievements
Found and filmed the removal of a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nose. The video went viral on social media and became a catalyst for the global anti-plastic movements.
Named a "Next Generation Leader" by TIME Magazine in 2018 (“Ending the age of plastics”)
Finalist for “Texan of the year” by the Dallas Morning News
Awarded Footprint Ocean Hero Award in 2018
2019 Texas Sea Grant Inspire to Influence Award
The mission
Christine is on a mission to protect adult turtles and their offspring from poaching and fisheries bycatch to maintain viable reproducing populations and to conserve the species for the future. All that while also convincing people to reduce their use of plastic to help sea turtles.
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