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Gulf Education & Outreach

Turtle Island Joins Sea Party Coalition!

By Cocos Island Research Expedition, Gulf Education & Outreach, Marine Mammals & Seabirds, Sea Turtles, Sharks

The Sea Party Coalition represents coastal and inland cities and towns, businesses, fishermen, surfers, divers, boaters and other concerned citizens regardless of political affiliation who support a healthy and vibrant coastal economy and oppose proposed new oil surveying and drilling along the Atlantic Coast and in the U.S. Arctic Ocean.

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Volunteers on the Lookout for Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Nests

By Gulf Education & Outreach, Sea Turtles

It’s not likely Bridget Dix will see the official sea turtle of Texas, the endangered Kemp’s ridley, but that doesn’t stop her from making a five-mile walk down a Galveston beach.

Searching the dunes and checking the sand for tracks, Dix walks one of the six stretches of beach that volunteers with the Turtle Island Restoration Network patrol. Dix is one of about 120 volunteers who will be walking almost 27 miles of beach a day looking for Kemp’s ridleys as they make their way up the beach to nest.

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Bringing the bag

By Gulf Education & Outreach, Sea Turtles

In honor of Earth Day, environmental volunteers and thousands of school kids are working to support one mission: reduce single-use plastic bags in Galveston.
Students in the Galveston Island Independent School District collected 683,100 bags in a five-month “A Bag’s Life” competition.

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