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We Check in with the Hospital Director at CROW on Sanibel

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,
Mike Kiniry
Published August 6, 2018 at 12:20 PM EDT
Dead Sea Turtle
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Dead Sea Turtle

Record numbers of sea turtles are turning up dead along southwest Florida’s coasts this summer, as well as large numbers of other kinds of marine life, from manatees and dolphin, to goliath grouper and snook. One of the organizations that’s on the front lines of this trend is CROW on Sanibel Island -- that stands for the Clinic for Rehabilitation of Wildlife. We're joined by Dr. Heather Barron, Hospital Director at CROW, who has been extremely busy working to rehabilitate animals there as the persistent red tide bloom continues wreaking havoc along the coast.

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Julie Glenn
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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Mike Kiniry
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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