Virus outbreak among sea stars coincided with warm waters,
researchers found after sixth graders held fundraiser for survey
Emily Holden in Washington
Wed 30 Jan 2019 19.00 GMTLast modified on Thu 31 Jan
2019 16.05 GMT
Five years ago, a sixth grade class in land-locked Arkansas heard
about a mass
die-off of starfish on the west coast and
felt compelled to help.
The 11- and 12-year-olds elected a chairman to head their
fundraiser. They cut out paper starfish – more formally known as sea stars –
and put them up for “adoption” for a $1 donation. They assigned them names
and personality
traits, such as Cherry Bomb, who “loves hanging out on her
phone”, “rocks the legging style” and “is really smart but isn’t a nerd”. They
sold T-shirts that read: “Save the Starfish.”
“We don’t have an ocean anywhere close by,” their now retired
teacher Vickie Bailey said. “The students knew that they would never go to the
coast, they would probably never get to see this type of starfish, but they
were so passionate about what was happening.”
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