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AIG Camp 2011

Odyssey
July 18 - July 21

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Even before a sea turtle is born it faces a variety of predators.
Welcome to AIG Camp 2011! Each year a different theme is chosen to focus the activities for camp and this year our theme is Odyssey. In our session we will be exploring the life and adventures of a sea turtle in North Carolina. As a sea turtle immediately lays her eggs safely on the beach they are in immediate danger. Any animal in passing or even irresponsible humans may harm the eggs. After the eggs hatch they become hatchlings and it is said that only one in every 10,000 hatchlings will make it to adulthood; that itself is an odyssey. It is an amazing journey that these tiny hatchlings have to face as soon as they are born. Imagine,

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Sea Turtle Volunteers In North Carolina there are many coastal communities that are dedicated to protecting sea turtles.

Endangered Species Act The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals.

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Many people in North Carolina have dedicated much of their time to protecting sea turtles.
In North Carolina there are many coastal communities that are dedicated to protecting sea turtles. Working along with these communities are organizations that are run by hundreds of volunteers. This week at camp we will be visited by a ninth-grader, Casey Sokolovic, who started her own organization to protect sea turtles in 2005. Love a Sea Turtle (L.A.S.T.) is a charitable fund under the sponsorship of The Greater Greenville Community Foundation. 100% of all 2 donations given to L.A.S.T. go towards educating the public, summer camps, and saving sea turtles. L.A.S.T. has also supported a run/walk 5k to help raise money and awareness of sea turtles. The main organization that inspired Casey so many years ago was The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Topsail Island. Director, Jean Beasley, who was recently nominated in 2007 as the Hero of the Year by the Animal Planet, opened the center in 1997. The center is completely staffed by volunteers who put in many hours rescuing and rehabilitating sea turtles on a daily basis. After discovering such amazing volunteers it is easy to become inspired to help these wonderful creatures, so what can we do to help?

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Create:

Need: 1 piece of Origami Paper and Scissors 1. Fold paper on both diagonals. 2. Fold two opposite corners into the center. 3. Turn paper over.

Raise Origami Sea Turtles Awareness

4. Fold straight sides into center line. 5. Unfold backs of triangles and refold to face front.

The Endangered Species Act protects sea turtles from being harmed.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. The law requires federal agencies, in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and/or the NOAA Fisheries Service, to ensure that actions they authorize, fund, or carry out are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical habitat of such species. The law also prohibits any action that causes a taking of any listed species of endangered fish or wildlife. Likewise, import, export, interstate, and foreign commerce of listed species are all generally prohibited.

6. Fold top triangles to make head and tail. Make sure one is folded more than the other (head). 7. Grab your scissors and cut from the bottom to the first set of colored triangles on both ends. 8. Fold the end up and crease after the first set of colored triangles. 9. Separate the two cut pieces and crease at an angle to make a pair of flippers. 10. Repeat on the other end. 11. Finally fold entire turtle in half to give 3-D look. 12. Fold in the corners of the shell to make look rounded. 13. Put your favorite sea turtle website on the back a give to a friend!

Make hundreds of them and raise awareness by passing out origami sea turtles with great info on the back!

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Sea Turtle Features


hatching and then tackling huge waves and predators to get to a safe net of sea grams miles away from shore. 2 1 4 5

After a hatchling has grown to full size it is still not safe from danger. Adult sea turtles can face the dangers of A loggerhead sea turtle that came ashore at human Cape Hatteras National Seashore to lay its predators on eggs was killed when a vehicle drove over it. and off land. NPS photos. Recently in Cape Hatteras a female sea turtle coming to shore to nest was run over by an illegal vehicle on the beach. This type of behavior by humans is only a small example of the odyssey that a sea turtle has to face on a daily basis to stay alive. Watching a sea turtle as it gracefully swims through the water is a remarkable ending to the sea turtles odyssey.

Large, heart-shaped shell covered with a layer of horny plates called scutes. Top part of the shell is called the carapace (it is reddish brown edged in yellow). Bottom of the shell is called the plastron (which is yellowish). Nonretractable head and legs. Four flipper-like legs with two tiny claws on each leg.

Did you know?


There are seven different sea turtle species: leatherback, green, Kemps ridley, Olive ridley, flatback, hawksbill, and loggerhead.

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