At first glance a series of concrete slides alongside the Rookwood Weir near Rockhampton in central Queensland may not seem ...

As World Turtle Day approaches on May 23 , Symbio Wildlife Park is celebrating the incredible strides being made in the ...

Native freshwater turtles have declined by up to 91 per cent in parts of the River Murray, but Indigenous rangers and conservationists are fighting to bring them back.

Conservationists are buoyed by the high number of eggs produced by endangered Australian turtle species in the 2024/5 breeding season. After an important hatching season, conservationists like ...

Great Barrier Reef crisis: turtles are sick and starving to death! Support WWF-Australia's turtle crisis appeal. Great Barrier Reef crisis: turtles are sick and starving to death! The extreme weather ...

The world’s largest green turtle rookery, near the tip of Australia, is only churning out girls but scientists are working on a plan to bring the boys back.

(The familiar box turtle also hibernates, but on land.) An Australian species, the Fitzroy River turtle, hardly ever surfaces, but obtains oxygen from water pumped through its cloaca, or posterior ...

The future of Australia's green turtles is under threat by climate change – but not how you might think. Rising sand temperature is leading to an extraordinary change in their population.