The Chances of the World Changing

I was very touched by a film I watched on PBS's POV last night titled "The Chances of the World Changing". It was about this guy who saved a rare turtle from the soup pot, took it home, and named it Empress. Some time later he saved 1,200 more turtles -some of which are now extinct in the wild- and housed them in his Manhattan apartment. His story made it into the mainstream media briefly as a light story and then dropped. The filmakers take over the story when the man, Richard Ogust, is in crisis to save the turtles from extintion and find a permanant place to house them against all odds and sacrificing his own personal life for the cause. It's a sad story illustrating how many turtles are unprotected and will soon fade out of existence.

You can read more about it POV website by clicking here.

You can watch the trailer for it by clicking here.