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Supporting Sea Turtle Survival Citation Availability: Restricted The data are withheld from general circulation and disclosure but access may be obtained on a case-by-case basis through negotiation Description North Queensland, Australia is a well known nesting area for marine turtles. Six of the world's seven species of marine turtles are found off the coast of Queensland. Despite this, there is a lack of community awareness and understanding of the issues impacting on these great mariners.
This project aims to demonstrate to the community through a satellite tracking device what the day-to-day life is for a typical green turtle; with the purpose of empowering community members to be aware of turtles and their movements.
Peanut is a young green turtle who weighs 15kg and who was found almost dead floating along Ross Creek, Townsville in October 2011. Peanut underwent some intensive rehabilitation over a 5 month period at James Cook University and was released into Cleveland Bay on the 9th of March 2012. Scope Themes: Biology > Reptiles Keywords: Marine/Coastal Contributor NQ Dry Tropics, more, data creator Related datasets Published in: OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Metadatarecord created: 2013-06-26 Information last updated: 2016-06-30 | ||||
