Dugongs and turtles are starving to death in Queensland seas – and La Niña's floods are to blame
- Written by: Kathy Ann Townsend, Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast
To rescue a turtle, University of the Sunshine Coast PhD candidate Caitlin Smith half-swam, half-crawled across mud on an inner tube. She tied a harness around its chest and front flippers, so the rest of the team could carefully pull it to safety. It was just one of 15 sick green turtles our team discovered in recent weeks in the Great Sandy...
