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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">PRESS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">May 24, 2022
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> 508-896-3867 ext. 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">tizzo@ccmnh.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NATURE SCREEN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">An ARGO Films Documentary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“CRASH: A Tale of Two Species”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">BREWSTER, MA —The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents an ARGO Films documentary
<i>CRASH: A Tale of Two Species,</i> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 12:30pm.</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">In her riveting and stunningly beautiful 2011 documentary,
<i>CRASH: A Tale of Two Species, </i>Brewster native and award-winning natural history filmmaker, Allison Argo, documents the threat of extinction to a small shorebird called the Red Knot that
<span class="fsl">must make a 10,000-mile journey from the southern tip of South America to its nesting grounds in the Arctic.</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">
</span></span><span class="fsl"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">This long-distance</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> traveler times its migration precisely to
coincide with the annual spawning of one of earth's most ancient creatures: the horseshoe crab. It is horseshoe crab eggs on the Delaware Bay that fuel the little bird’s epic journey to the Arctic.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Since the 1970s, we have used horseshoe crab blood for medical purposes. But we may have gone too far as horseshoe crab numbers
have declined significantly since the early 1990’s when the fishing industry </span>
<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">discovered that they make good bait for eel and conch. As these industries boomed, horseshoe crabs were collected by the truckload, and red knot numbers started to crash.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">With its armored shell, ancient anatomy, and 350-million-year lineage, the horseshoe crab almost seems too inconspicuous to
stir up controversy. Yet this humble creature is at the very center of a collision between these three completely different species.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">The story of the red knot and the horseshoe crab is a living example of how every species is interconnected, each one important,
no matter how big or small. As the fate of two extraordinary creatures teeter on the edge, humankind must grapple with the economics and politics of extinction.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Narrated by Allison Argo</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Free with Museum Admission</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Program Coordinator/Publicist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">869 Main St. / Rte. 6A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Brewster, MA 02631<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">508-896-3867, ext. 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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