hello we are here today with Tara
children's book author and aspiring marine
biologist, say hi Tara!  Hi it's good it's
all good so what inspired you to write your
book
alright so the book is called the Loneliest Mermaid
I've been obsessed with marine biology since 5th grade
grade one of the most that i researched
the most was the tweetup and when it
came time for me to grow so reward I
thought I wanted to do something
involving dangerous species like the
Queen up I so I like went through all
the different ideas like you want to
make it formally and informally to order
i'll make it a children pick and
eventually working with my extra
neighbor whose agency also illustrate ER
and we came up with the plotline like
everything to do with the book and so
awesome so I've seen you done things
like mean breathe book signings so how's
that been for like what that experience
like it's really cool while I see so a
lot of things selling books if you don't
mean point of my project when you tell
people about the animals and raise
awareness on animals and the book was
one of the ways doing that and also
painted out blurry sheets with the
pictures beholding told people about the
northern rebuild quita awesome so in the
book these different species what can we
do to help preserve their habitat and
what can we do to help them survive
well the mermaid stretch with the wall
basically the beginning of the book is
the mermaid tails in boro about what the
what the Machine threats are two species
so basically the completed their main
threat is real mess
I mean she's been using illness because
they get plottin on a ground
unfortunately
they're here they're right well one of
their one of their main direct our noise
pollution so I talked about that on
purpose remains about that community I
talked about about those positions and
so that is really got fish for me first
back because i get x goes to 0 and after
that she talked about the little relax
what you do help and to my shoulder that
first of all learning about the animals
and learning about the ocean is just the
first step to protecting our emotions
because we're you know about the ocean
here you can save it
one of the ways was to ask guarantee
they can donate money or race and age
donate to organizations that were hired
to protect the species and what are some
of these organizations and recommends i
say well Foundation which I actually
wanted to get information about the
quita and more than right well they have
things where you can adopt those cuido
symbolically and also you actually did
that and it's making me like 20 bucks
and you get a photo of a widow you get a
pamphlet you guys it's like dog tag it
save the equator and each other like
cool stuff that you get with it and so
that was one of the things that you
could do you see the whales also
humanity you there's a fantasy tour
which is like to me
manatee organization can you get outta
da p endangered species to be a trend
the flu
sorry go ahead your audio cut out for
some ask how you got it okay good
because without that goes on how we got
guys are good
ok so you want to be a marine biologist
at some point in your life so this is
kind of a trivial question but do you
have a favorite creators one that I
choose the most about currently because
through the East critically endangered
station which is open for dinner well
and I here's to 60 left in the wild and
you're surviving activate so me through
the most maybe we should try to
prioritize and wow that's crazy
we got me something has to be done like
right now definitely
Oh which is why i'm so glad that people
like you're reading books important
people i'm so glad to this interview
today and is there any advice that you
would give other aspiring biologist
other young children to sell opinions or
anyone really
yeah definitely get involved in your
community so getting involved is a huge
part of it and learning as much as you
can about different animals many great
ecosystems because I mean a giant nerd
about this stuff dr. grace come on i
don't like reading and learning noe as
much telling other people about it is a
huge object
I'm getting kind of fingers into the
sort of career field that colleges three
that's great well thank you so much for
doing this interview I had an awesome
time talking to you
so we're going to go and have an office
a guys say the Vienna Convention and
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