Other Turtle Discussion :: raising awareness?

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:34 pm   raising awareness?

--well i have my turtle fact sheet made out, but with john being sick and all it made me feel sad about the turtles out there not getting proper treatment and of course the ones being abused...

i wanted to make something fairly easy and quick to read to raise awareness for the fact that these little ones aren't treated properly due to poor pet care education, and of course stress the fact that captive turtles shouldn't be released in the wild.

does anyone have links to good articles for research and citation? or can you at least provide good keywords? keyword searches and kellee don't tend to go together very well :(

thanx!
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Post Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:31 pm   

Hm, maybe you could make a video about it. Think about it, movies are fun and to many people, a much easier way of learning. :D
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:50 am   

I did a Speech on this subject for my Speech class, I would recommend keywords such as Salmonella, turtle abuse, and why babies were banned.

http://nis.gsmfc.org/nis_factsheet.php?toc_id=208

Read the "Potential Impacts" part.

Also if you do make a video, I think putting it on You Tube would really help.
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:25 am   

xsavingsaturdayx wrote:Hm, maybe you could make a video about it. Think about it, movies are fun and to many people, a much easier way of learning. :D
thats a fantastic way of getting peeps atention.i would of done this!
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:55 am   

Go for it, Pumpkin! Show your stuff! :D
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:27 am   

videos would probably be really expensive, if she is planning on passing them out to people.. she would need a lot.
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:26 pm   

Not necessarily! I'm sure she could do some kind of non-traditional distribution, maybe do a video and include that and some other material on a burned cd, or if that was too expensive, create a website and just print some cards with the URL to hand out? Even just posting to youtube, as someone suggested, would be a good start.

As far as keywords, try searching for turtle laws, you'll probably come across stuff about the 4 inch law, as well as laws prohibiting release of captives. Also try 'turtle care' and 'turtle neglect'.
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