Marine Center: Rescues, Studies, Teaches

Learning through conservation practice and direct encounter

When a stranded loggerhead turtle named Dwight required advanced medical imaging, conservation teams turned to an unexpected classroom: a human hospital. This project documents how hands-on care, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and close proximity to wildlife create powerful opportunities for learning—about biology, responsibility, and what it takes to help endangered species recover. The work centers conservation not as abstraction, but as something practiced, witnessed and shared.

“No one is a perfect environmentalist. Do what you can.”

Published by The Palm Beach Post
Photography and reporting by Marisa Marulli
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