Why Just One?

Set on some of the most beautiful but dangerous beaches in the world, a team risks everything to save the most vulnerable and ancient of creatures, sea turtles. For more than 100 million years, sea turtles have survived, witnessing the fall of the dinosaurs and the dawn of humankind. Now, there is a war taking place between poachers and conservationists that will determine their survival.

Join Sea Shepherd in our first in-house feature length documentary from the sandy shores of Costa Rica. In the documentary, Why Just One?, Sea Shepherd defend the same beach where Jairo Mora Sandoval was murdered in 2013 while protecting sea turtles. The Sea Shepherd crew endure attacks and brave treacherous conditions. They tackle trying to prevent the poaching of sea turtle eggs in Costa Rica when the activity is legal in one beach town, Ostional, on the country’s Pacific coast. This legal loophole fuels and enables egg poaching throughout Costa Rica.

In Why Just One?, Sea Shepherd explores the widely accepted statistic that just one in one thousand sea turtle hatchlings survive to maturity. The statistic is not even for eggs surviving, it's for hatchlings.

Why Just One? That questions cuts to the heart of every effort that aims to keep sea turtles swimming in Earth's oceans. It's a deceptively simple question, but one that defies simple answers.

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