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- Hometown:
- Palm Island
- About Me:
- My name is Zander Srodes, I created Turtle Talks an environmental eco-literacy road show when I was eleven years old. For the past seven years, the traveling classroom has been presented to thousands of students and adults. "Turtle Talks" is an educational seminar that was designed to enlighten young people to the plight that turtles and sea life face in the marine world. The focus is on public awareness to empower kids to become stewards of their natural resources.
In 2004, I wrote an activity book as a FREE handout to accompany the seminars. Now 200,000 books have been printed in English, Spanish, and French. A second book, The Gopher Tortoise was written in 2007.
- What are you working on?
- Turtle Talks also mentors groups of young students in Florida to adopt waterways. They clean up debris in the estuaries and along the beaches. The Turtle Talks Team, a group of high school students and the Pick Up Posse a crew of elementary school age students participate in the Adopt A Shore program. They organize beach and channel clean ups along the Gulf of Mexico.
In the future Zander plans to become involved with eco-tourism. Hoping to create an industry that is harmonious for residents and their fragile natural resources.
- Favorite Book(s):
- The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles
Archie Carr and the origins of conservation biology
Frederick Rowe Davis
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