Saving the Ocean: Trinidad’s Turtle Giants

2013 FESTIVAL
27 min.
Filmmakers:  David Huntley, Carl Safina, and John Angier
Trinidad’s Turtle Giants is an episode of Saving the Ocean on PBS. Witness the spectacular comeback of Earth’s last warm-blooded monster reptile, the 1000-pound leatherback turtle, now thriving on Caribbean beaches. Trinidad’s leatherbacks were heading for extinction, but now 10,000 visitors a year come to the famous Matura Beach, and local villages make a good living from sea turtle ecotourism.
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