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HOW JOHN NIGHTINGALE TRANSFORMED THE
VANCOUVER AQUARIUM FROM ONE THAT DOES
CONSERVATION INTO "A GLOBAL CONSERVATION
ORGANIZATION THAT HAS AN AQUARIUM"
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One morning in September 2015, Dolf DeJong
stopped at a popular tourist beach in the Alicante
region of Spain. He saw hundreds and hundreds
of people in street clothes and bathing suits mill-
ing about, television reporters roving the sand with
cameras and microphones, and local police fencing
off areas with yellow tape. He knew why they were
there—to see a dozen loggerhead turtles head out to
sea—but he couldn't believe how many people came.
stor y by M A R C I E G O O D p o r t r a i t by A DA M B L A S B E R G
