Journey of the Loggerhead (Caretta caretta)

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Journey of the Loggerhead

Environmental Media has produced media to support the work of environmental, education, and conservation organizations for more than fifteen years, yet until we began working on Journey of the Loggerhead, we had not come in contact with so many people with such passion for one goal: the worldwide conservation of marine turtles.

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format	interactive DVD

Adult female loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nested on Cape Island in the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina. After nesting, she was fitted with a satellite transmitter by the SC Department of Natural Resources as part of an ongoing study. We designed and filmed this interactive DVD in the company of countless staff and volunteers of local nesting beach monitoring programs, domestic and international agencies, colleges and universities, aquaria, nature centers, and rehabilitation programs, who were quite literally up to their necks in marine turtles. Despite the daunting statistics (all seven species of marine turtles are considered endangered by the IUCN), challenging work conditions (all-night turtle patrols on muggy, sandy beaches filled with mosquitoes), and the complexities of solving a global environmental crisis, the marine turtle community remains determined and optimistic.

View the photo gallery of images from Journey of the Loggerhead production.

The sum of our work is this interactive DVD containing GIS data, satellite tracking information, still photographs, extensive interviews, and a 30-minute documentary about the loggerhead and other marine turtle species and the people who are devoting their lives to their protection and conservation.

The content of the DVD currently includes:

Journey of the Loggerhead – A 30-minute documentary featuring stunning terrestrial and underwater footage and interviews with leading marine turtle scientists.
Cold Water - Written and performed by Damien Rice, the song accompanies a special segment on people and turtles.
Cold Water song written by Damien Rice
administered by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd.
administered in the United States by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
performed by Damien Rice
(p) & © 2003 Damien Rice
Under license to Vector Recordings, LLC/Warner Bros. Records, Inc, 14th Floor Records. By arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing and Warner Strategic Marketing UK.
Arribada video segment – Historical footage of endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles nesting in 1947 at Rancho Nuevo in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Ask the Scientists – Marine turtle scientists answer intriguing questions about marine turtles.
Teacher’s guides
Curriculum correlations – available for download now
Still image library, including over 650 sea turtle images
Web site links to more than 100 informative sites
Loggerhead bibliography, more than 150pp. compiled by Kenneth Dodd, Jr., Ph.D.
Print materials
GIS/Maps
Interview transcripts

In spite of eighteen months of work on the DVD, its content does not begin to capture the tireless devotion, intelligence, and passion of those with whom we worked. We thank them all for their ongoing labors, and hope that Journey of the Loggerhead will help advance their cause and will encourage others to join the marine turtle conservation community.

Journey of the Loggerhead Reviewers:

Kenneth Dodd, Jr., Ph.D.: USGS - Florida Integrated Science Centers
Karen Eckert, Ph.D.: WIDECAST and Duke University Marine Lab
Llewellyn Ehrhart, Ph.D.: University of Central Florida
Jerris Foote:Mote Marine Laboratory
Sally Murphy: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Wallace J Nichols: Blue Ocean Institute
David Owens, Ph.D.: College of Charleston - Grice Marine Laboratory

To get your copy:

To license content or order videocassettes and DVDs of the following productions contact:

Box Lunch Media, LLC
boxlunchmedia.com,
phone: 919.821.3644, fax: 919.821.3645

For more information contact:

Bill Pendergraft
phone: 800.368.3382 (ext. 14)
fax: 843.986.9093
bpendergraft@envmedia.com
You may also download a PDF info sheet about Journey of the Loggerhead and other interactive DVD’s from Environmental Media.