Short Film: How to Help Sea Turtles Threatened By Extinction

The beaches of Tulum, Mexico are home to hundreds of nesting endangered sea turtles. Volunteers at the Xcacel Sea Turtle Camp help get thousands of sea turtles to the ocean safely. One volunteer, Aurora, gets her perspective changed from this experience.
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Mexico is the nesting ground for at least 5 out of 7 sea turtle species worldwide. Between the months of May to September, in the popular Mexican vacation towns of Tulum and Cancun,, endangered turtles like the loggerhead and green turtles are setting up nests on the beach. Volunteers, like the one in our next film, Aurora (Dawn), patrol the nests to make sure every baby turtle makes it to safety. There sanctuary is one of the largest in the country, so come along to see what it takes to help protect one species at the brink of extinction.
This is Aurora (Dawn) from filmmaker Emilio Alverez. Special thanks to Jackson Wild.
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[@Seeker]

Thanks for watching! What steps can you take to help your favorite endangered animal? This film is part of our 2022 Seeker Indie showcase, so look out for more films next Tuesday.

[@metaverse7149]

Keep up the great work! Thanks!!

[@tylerkovalskas9780]

those baby turtles are so adorable! i would absolutely love to be able to help rescue every single one of them. they're just so amazing and they're some of the cutest animals I've ever seen. i hope that they can someday get off of the endangered species lists, and that their populations can get back to the higher numbers they used to be

[@Gaming_Vegan_Ape]

Does cuteness dictate the value of one life?

[@fayas234]

@@Gaming_Vegan_Ape no

[@tylerkovalskas9780]

@@Gaming_Vegan_Ape no, but I just can't get over how adorable they are. even if they weren't cute, I would still care just as much. I've always loved animals. all of them. i think that it's great that the people in this documentary are helping to save the turtles, and if i was in that place, i would love to be able to help them get the turtles to the ocean too.

[@BobMotster]

Huge respect for Emilio Alverez and Co.! This was a professional movie. BBC Earth-level quality. The bird's eye views, the long shots, the panning, the narration... everything was masterfully done.

[@orangejuice393]

It's very inspiring to see ppl committed to such a noble cause. Makes you have faith in humanity once more.

[@shcbiddu]

Appreciate you all 🙏🏼

[@alexanderlin1001]

Why are humans so special and different from other animals on this planet? Well... because we have a very rare ability that only we(humans) have. We are KIND and capable to TAKE CARE of other animals. So, if YOU truly are human, be KIND and TAKE CARE of other animals.

[@BarnabyBaltimoron]

Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@Trainy2]

Seems like a very noble and fulfilling endeavor

[@maksimatic]

Omg so cute and precious!!! 🥰 Thank you guys so much for contributing to a better world 🙏🏽

[@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4]

The epic view of the turtles going to the sea makes one cheer for them. Go turtles go!

[@kaliman155]

Thank you for helping the turtles

[@grant9047]

Thank you so much for this, I’d like to donate to this cause

[@sophieamarant1536]

I live in Daytona and have met people that do this

[@stevethompson988]

Beautiful!!!

[@Hawilabas]

Respect

[@GinoNearns]

Wonderful film, thank you ❤

[@dsaint372]

🐢Thank you for this beautiful short film. Well done 👏 👏👏⚘☺🏝 peace

[@ray1956]

Keep up the great work 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🥰👨🏿‍⚕️👨🏿‍⚕️

[@KJSvitko]

Be kind to people and animals.

[@ostanin_vadym]

Thanks for the content

[@BigDickDamage]

I hope they live on😢

[@stanmarsh4203]

Those little dudes gonna live longer than me 😊

[@DHPanthony]

Beautiful video. Here in Brazil we also have 5/7 sea water turtles species coming here to nest and eat (Chelonia mydas; Caretta caretta; Dermochelys coriacea; Eretmochelys imbricata and Lepidochelys olivacea). I am currently working with the prefecture of Jaboatâo dos Guararapes, in Pernambuco, northeast of Brazil, and we are also helping baby sea turtles be able to go to sea (as well as educating the population). Just this weekend alone we had 136 of them born. However, still to this day, many people activelly search for turtle eggs, either to try and sell them off or to eat them, and many get in the way of the mother as she is tired and hungry from her voyage...

[@jdmmg4904]

♥️

[@tonys.1946]

So cute!!

[@KJSvitko]

Respect nature and protect nature.

[@rjung_ch]

Mitakuye Oyasin

[@patpaul1359]

there are only 5 sea turtle species?

[@aurouribe4384]

There are seven but 2 of them are endemic to Australia and other islands of Oceania so they don't come to Mexico :)

[@montysmythe579]

Just watched your video on blood donations and want to know if someone who doesn't want vax and needs a transfusion is there a possibility that they can receive the vax via a transfusion

[@desmond-hawkins]

I hope you escape the vax and enjoy the ICU :-). Looking forward to reading about you on the "Herman Cain Award" subreddit.

[@psp785]

Sea turtles mate

[@nowherecentral9191]

Wow it’s nice to see that Mexico cares about its wildlife. I wish the US could do the same

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

It all renders one torn as to their own divertissements, and exploits therein. Looking forward myopically to the Friday and Saturday night bacchanals, at once loses it's sheen.

[@XPilotP]

Or we slowly stop eating fish to save fish. Just a thought; plus all of the bycatch like turtles, sharks dolphins etc. that we would save.

[@Gaming_Vegan_Ape]

Why slowly, when you can cold turkey it. Fish are sentient beings with the capacity to experience pain. Let's not pay for their suffering.

[@orangejuice393]

Some of us can do it cold turkey, but many surely wouldn't even be willing to 😓

[@Dios7518]

@@Gaming_Vegan_Ape fish actually don’t fill pain 😋😋

[@xXKIKOXx0]

C:

[@TheYafaShow]

HIS PROCLIVITY TO EXPLORE IS THAT OF AN ANCIENT EXPLORER FROM A PRINCIPALITY, FROM CIRCA B.C.E. YET HIS TENDENCY OF BENEVOLENCE IS THAT OF AN ANCIENT EXPLORER FROM A MUNICIPALITY FROM CIRCA A.D. NONETHELESS SHALL YOUR CREATIVE PROWESS PROSPER, AND THE TIDES OF HISTORY ALWAYS IN YOUR FAVOUR.

[@christiannunez4402]

Those little turtles look delicious!😋

[@manasshetty5032]

Y

[@randalljsilva]

Couldn’t indiscriminately bringing all lagging baby turtles to the ocean hurt the gene-pool of the turtle population? Couldn’t it also have an effect on other species that depend on suboptimal baby turtles for food?

[@tmurphy0919]

It could but not much, I think. If they can't make it off the beach on their own, they won't last long in the water. Part of that 1 in 1000 survival rate is that there are predators waiting offshore who heard the dinner bell and are waiting at the table.

[@kucingtigers]

can even see ocean it ocean far away and i not care.

[@nissanownsyou]

Gonna save everyone five minutes: Dismantle capitalism, destroy colonialism. End.

[@whatthefunction9140]

I give up. The trend is clear. Why pretend there is room for humans and nature?

[@theprogressiveatheist7024]

At least it's not Ridddle glorifying nuclear energy.

[@KingAwesomeOutputs]

Nuclear energy is required for a shift away from fossil fuels. It's the only existing non-CO2 emitting energy source that can provide base load power, when wind and solar are unavailable. If not nuclear, then it will be natural gas which is not what we want. With currently viable technology, nuclear is the best bet for a non-intermittent non-emitting energy source.

[@gamehacker2801]

@@KingAwesomeOutputs unfortunately people don't understand it. Nuclear energy is the path to cleaner future

[@erizzo8543]

And you call yourself progressive?