[SEMCO] CCMNH Disentangling Whales and Sea Turtles

[The Gilligans]

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster

Presents

 

A Large and Difficult Challenge: 

Disentangling Whales and Sea Turtles

with Scott Landry

Director, Marine Animal Entanglement Response Program

Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies

 

Thursday, May 3

7:30 pm

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 4 2012

Contact: Julie O'Neil 508-896-3867 or adminsupport at ccmnh.org
<mailto:adminsupprt at ccmnh.org> 

 

On Thursday, May 3 at 7:30 pm the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will
present A Large and Difficult Challenge: Disentangling Whales and Sea
Turtles

with Scott Landry, Director of the Marine Animal Entanglement Response
Program, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies.

 

$5/Member. $7/Non-Member.

 

In an illustrated power point presentation Scott will speak about the
history of whale entanglement rescue, regulations pertaining to whale
conservation, conservation efforts especially in U.S. waters, entanglement
and disentanglement techniques, monitoring entangled whales through
telemetry and whale hazards.

 

Learn about the risks and the rewards of disentangling a great whale from a
small boat.

 

Join us to hear what is involved in protecting whales from an expert in
rescue and research of these majestic marine mammals right off our shores.

 

 

For further information, contact the Museum at 508-896-3867.  www.ccm
<http://www.ccm/> nh.org

 

 

 

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