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On the trail of the turtles: the world's threatened loggerhead turtles find a friend in Sarasota wildlife painter John Seerey-Lester.

EVERY YEAR, FROM MAY TO OCTOBER, dawn beckons Mote Marine Laboratories' sea turtle patrol volunteers. Sarasota is part of the most important loggerhead turtle nursery area in the Western Hemisphere, attracting thousands of female turtles each summer in a perilous quest to lay their eggs and continue the existence of this ancient species. The loggerheads, ranging from 200 to 400 pounds, swim from far-off seas to the shore where they were born, laboriously crawling several hundred feet up on the sand to dig their nests at night. And they in turn draw the volunteers whose aid is so crucial to that cause.

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