May Monthly Meeting
Monday, May 6th  6:30 pm
​at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon

Guest Speaker:  Jim Gamlin
Topic:  Billfish and their Adaptations
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​Our featured guest speaker this month from Illinois is marine/fisheries biologist Jim Gamlin. Jim  has been a field editor for MidWest Outdoors magazine for more than 2 decades. Gamlin’s travels eventually brought him to Florida and the Keys, where he unexpectedly became involved in saving sea turtles. Jim has authored several non-fiction books about saving sea turtles (including A Home for Nickel, and Because of Nickel), along with a children’s book titled Lucky Nickel, the Story of Nickel the Sea Turtle. Jim will be making a presentation on Billfish, and will tell some of the interesting adaptations of these fish.

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Wyland Paints Save-A-Turtle Trailer

Marine life artist Wyland is a big supporter of Save-A-Turtle. He has helped SAT by designing our logo, judging our kids art contest, and donating paintings to our organization to raise money.
And he continues to help us out!
During MOTE's Ocean Fest in Key West on April 13th, Wyland painted the front of our new education trailer ,which replaced the once we lost to Hurricane Irma, through a grant from the Sea Turtle Conservancy
We wish to offer our most sincere thanks to the Sea Turtle Conservnacy and Wyland for their help in getting us back on the road to continue our mission of educating the public on our majestic sea turtles!
Click below to learn more about
The Sea Turtle Conservancy
The Wyland Foundation

Saving Sea Turtles Movie Screening

 Sunday, May 5th 6:00pm
Tropic Cinema Key West
Tickets $15 
Champagne Reception: 5:30 pm
Q&A with Producers following

Join us for this very special viewing on "Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction"
narrated by Sylvia Earle
This feature-length independent documentary focuses on a record-breaking cold-stunned sea turtle stranding season on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where over 1,200 cold-stunned sea turtles washed ashore, over 90 percent of them Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles. Hundreds of people from over 10 states and 21 institutions came together to rescue them—an effort that included “the largest airlift of an endangered species, probably anywhere in the United States, quite possibly the world.”  
Click below to learn more and purchase tickets.

Saving Sea Turtles: Read More & Tickets

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