Endangered bum-breathing turtles and the town working to save them – video

In December 2024, when unseasonable flooding threatened the breeding season of a critically endangered turtle, Marilyn Connell and other members of a Queensland community conservation group sprang into action. The Mary river turtle is one of 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis‘Every year matters’: Queensland’s critically endangered ‘bum-breathing’ turtle battles the odds Continue reading...