Ocean Conservation Going Viral: Tom Price, Kingston Grammar

‘Social media has revolutionised the way that we communicate with one another, yet we often overlook the power of these tools to connect people to the natural world’.  In 2015, Dr Nathan Robinson experienced first-hand the capacity of social media to change people’s behaviour on a global scale, when a video of him removing a plastic drinking straw from the nose of a sea turtle whilst on a research expedition in Costa Rica went viral.