After Spill Sea Turtles Still Swimming Summary

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In the articles titled “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” and “For The Turtles”, they both are about the ways that people are helping turtles stay alive. However, “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” is better at achieving its purpose. This is shown in the “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” by Achieve 3000 and it states, “To that end, the eggs at NPS's lab are monitored 24 hours a day. Once hatching begins, Shaver sleeps on a cot in her office, caring for the tiny turtles as if they were her own babies. “ This evidence is about how Shaver is taking lots of care for the turtles in hopes of helping them survive. Since a main point in this article is about how Shaver is taking lots of care for the turtles, so it is about ways …show more content…
This shows how scientists are helping the turtles survive because scientists are monitoring their chances to survive and are willing to help them. However, the article titled “For The Turtle's” does not effectively show how humans are helping the turtles survive in many ways. According to “For he Turtles” by Achieve 3000 it states, “The ambitious plan called for collecting about 70,000 sea turtle eggs in up to 800 nests buried in the sand on beaches across Alabama and the Florida panhandle.” This evidence is about how many people are going to help gather the turtle eggs across the Alabama and Florida beaches. This shows how “For The Turtles” is not effective iosin showing the ways that humans can help save the turtles because there is no much detail to it. It only says what they're going to do, not how they will do

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