Wicked Local
SOUTH WELLFLEET A Perfect Planet, a five-part film series hosted by Sir David Attenborough, is meant to demonstrate that while the interaction of Earth’s natural forces sunlight, volcanoes, oceans supports an abundance of life, human activity threatens to upend that delicate balance.
With that in mind, the sea turtle rescue program at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary and the New England Aquarium is featured in the final episode of the series, “Humans,” airing on Jan. 24 on Discovery+.
Videographers from Silverback Films, which produced the series, spent more than a week on Cape Cod in November 2019 photographing staff members and volunteers for Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary as they patrolled beaches in search of cold-stunned sea turtles and transported them to the aquarium’s sea turtle hospital in Quincy for veterinary treatment. The film provides a close-up view of the state-of-the-art medical care and facilities used to triage a