For Immediate Release – Wednesday, 15 August 2018
SEA TURTLE BEFRIENDS PLASTIC BOTTLE
Poignant tale reveals why more
must be done to heal ailing oceans
‘Only we humans
make waste that nature can’t digest’. So said marine biologist, Charles Moore.
It’s a sad but true fact that ten years from now, unless something is done to
turn the tide on the amount of plastic being discarded into the world’s oceans,
many species of turtles, already critically endangered, will become extinct.
‘It’s why I wrote Tantaya
and Sunika, The Turtle and the Bottle,’ says author Matthew Pigott. It’s an
allegorical tale with an important environmental message at its heart.’
Described by one
reader as a cross between Julia Donaldson and Paolo Coelho, The Turtle and the
bottle is a touching account of a single female turtle’s search for meaningful
companionship and her inadvertent quest for survival. At the end, in a twist of
irony, it is the very species that has led to her demise that comes to
Tantaya’s rescue.
Adds Matthew:
‘Frightening statistics compelled me to write about the state of the ocean from
the point of view of a turtle unable to conceive because of the mess our seas
are in now.
‘One of the figures
that horrified me in particular was that, if you tied all of today’s seaborne
plastic bags end to end they would wrap around the earth more than 4000 times.
Another is that 100,000 marine creatures die from seaborne plastics each year. Often it will
be the same plastics killing over and over again as animals decompose and
release the old indestructible plastics back into the water to kill again. It
highlights that the destructive love affair with our polymer partner has got to
end now.
‘I thought a story
aimed at people of all ages that wasn’t preachy or prescriptive, but was simply
about the plight of a single turtle trying to survive in an increasingly sick
ocean, would be the best way to get this important environmental message across.’
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Tantaya and Sunika: The Turtle and the Bottle is available on Amazon Kindle for £3.99
Editor notes
Environmental charity,
Friends of Earth will be including ‘Tantaya and Sunika, The Turtle and the
Bottle’ on their ‘back to
school’ and ‘plastic free’ reading list.
About the author
Matthew Pigott has been a professional copywriter for
fifteen years. Prior to that he was an international DJ and care worker, roles
that led to him many times burning the candle at both ends. When one of the
young men he looked after died of a seizure, he decided to quit care work. And
when tinnitus set into both ears from playing clubs, bars, celebrity weddings
and television wrap parties, he decided to quit DJing, too. After several years
of soul searching and working numerous dissatisfying jobs, he found himself
drawn to his true passion of writing. Always lingering in the background as a
desire, it moved into a less opaque depth of field to become a hobby, and then,
in 2003, into sharp focus as his chosen profession. Over the last decade and a
half, working freelance, he has written many thousands of articles, press
releases, reports, and white papers for businesses ranging from property,
social media, disruptive tech and franchising to pharmaceuticals, renewable
energy, and corporate social responsibility. To fulfil a slightly deeper
creative urge, in his spare time he more recently began writing fictional stories
that carry messages he hopes resonate on various levels with people of all
ages.
Contacts
email: environmentalauthors@gmail.com
mobile: +44(0)7903 723 898
phone: +44(0)1780 238 863
