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🚧🐢 Thrilled to see our work with @Transport4NSW on national TV! The new #M12Motorway to Western Sydney Airport includes turtle-safe designs to protect adult turtles, the backbone of their populations. Saving adults = saving species. #Conservation #Sustainability youtu.be/XGVGBDrq0cY?...

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Why do turtles bask? 🐢☀️ Basking isn’t just vital for turtles’ health—it’s a tool for conservation. Tracking basking turtles reveals size classes (adults vs. sub-adults) and shows if populations are stable, declining, or thriving. Watch these eastern long-necks basking on our #TurtleIslands! 👇 1/4

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Report your sightings to TurtleSAT! 🐢 #CitizenScience helps track size distributions, population trends, and threats. Your data supports programs protecting nests and boosting turtle survival. Small actions, big impact. 💪 #CitizenScience #TurtleSAT 4/4 youtu.be/znYnh--ZbE0?...

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Turtle Islands promo

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Eliminating numbers as a metric collected by #CitizenScience reduces biases directly related to sampling effort. Sub adults are smaller than adults and only remain sub adults for a few years. If sub adults are consistently being observed, then initiatives improving recruitment are successful 3/4

Basking data helps measure the success of conservation efforts like #TurtleIslands, headstarting, and nest protection. Seeing more sub-adults basking? That’s a sign of population recovery. Declining adults? A warning to act. 2/4 #TurtleConservation #BaskingTurtles

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Turtle embryos speed up development to hatch in the safety of a group

Turtle embryos communicate underground, syncing development to hatch together and boost survival. Our research reveals this amazing strategy. With #TurtleIslands thriving, we may witness mass hatchling emergence 🐢 #1MillionTurtles #Biodiversity #CitizenScience theconversation.com/turtle-embry...

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Australian freshwater turtle embryos can sense how developed other babies are in their eggs and then speed up their own growth to hatch with the most advanced of their siblings, according to new resea...

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Dark secret hidden beneath Aussie city’s housing estates

"Under Western Sydney’s housing estates lies a hidden tragedy—hibernating turtles, fish, and eels buried by rapid development." Proud to highlight this critical issue in the article. We need smarter, sustainable urban growth. au.news.yahoo.com/dark-secret-... #Conservation #Sustainability"

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Most people don't know what developers have buried underneath their homes. Find out more.

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Dark secret hidden beneath Aussie city’s housing estates

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Most people don't know what developers have buried underneath their homes. Find out more.

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Watch for turtles crossing roads.. moving them across the road is the best conservation action you can do.

Never feel guilty. We do what we can do.

Yep. Atlanta is part of the team. Happy to help. Islands could definitely go into those areas

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Which group? We work with a range of councils and community groups in that region

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Nowhere in the world (to my knowledge) You are seeing the research done in real time