I attended the Sea Turtle Seminar on February 4th at the Rita Hollings building. The talk was held by Joe Pfaller who is apart of the Caretta Research Project also known as the CRP. The CRP is held in Wassaw Island in Georgia. Their primary focus is to conserve, research, and educate people about the loggerhead sea turtles that come ashore on Wassaw Island. They are a non-profit organization that has been the longest running project of 47 years! During the beginning of the talk, they discussed the tasks that they do at the CRP. Not only do they protect loggerheads, but they also sometimes help green sea turtles, leatherback sea turtles, and Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles. Then going onto what life is like to be a sea turtle and the patterns they have learned to help them better understand conservation both regionally and internationally. The CRP achievements began in the ’70s when they began protecting the nests and creating the T.E.D also know as the Turtle Excluder Device. This device helps sea turtles from drowning in shrimp traps. The CRP is also volunteer friendly, this helps bridge the gap to help sea turtles. Although achievements are good, there are more problems that seem to be according. Such as climate change is the main focal point. Climate change is affecting sea turtles in many ways. This brings us to what we have been talking about in our class, and how certain environmental problems are viewed. The two views are anthropocentric and ecocentric. Anthropocentric is the view that tends to focus on one main area and the ecocentric view is more holistic and looks at the bigger picture zoomed out. For the sea turtles, an anthropocentric view will not fix the problems that climate change is causing, but to increase more. Looking at an ecocentric view it will let us look at all areas being affected by climate change, for example, like; sea-level rising, change in currents, pollution, and beach armoring. All these needs to be taken into consideration to completely be able to conserve sea turtles, because it is more than just protecting their nest, is it to create a more sustainable outcome for these sea turtles. That is why the CRP is a very good organization because it allows volunteers from all over to educated and participates in sea turtle conservation. I think that is the first step in any conservation is to bring everyone together to make a better solution.