Multimedia

A selection of informative multimedia produced by or linked to the Mary River turtle and/or Tiaro Landcare.  

Videos

Tiaro Landcare YouTube channel

The Last Giants of the Mary – Tiaro Landcare

Mary River Turtle Hatchlings Race to the River

For the love of nature – Highlights of lecture by Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, Managing Director, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Two on the Great Divide – a TV documentary. Tim Flannery and John Doyle travel along Australia’s Great Dividing Range. An excerpt where they spend a day with our local Scientist, Marilyn Connell and the Mary River turtle.

Press

ABC News: Bum-breathing Mary River turtle garners both royal and loyal Melbourne punk following

The National, United Arab Emirates : The unlikely story of the ‘punk turtle’

The Guardian: Researchers forced to sell chocolates to save Queensland ‘punk’ turtle from extinction

ABC News: Bum-breathing turtles bring conservationists and farmers together to understand a Queensland river

National Geographic September 2020. This endangered turtle sports a mohawk-made of algae.

The Australian Government Environment Minister, Hon Peter Garrett MP, says NO to the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam in southeast Queensland because of the detrimental effects it would have on the endangered Mary River turtle and other threatened aquatic species of the river.

Podcasts

Species by Macken. Number 53: Mary River turtle. 

Listen to The Full Story – an edition of the podcast presented by Laura Murphy-Oates. Includes the fascinating story of the Mary River turtle.

ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler: John Cann the snake man

Saving Turtles with Dr Chan Eng Heng from Malaysia and Marilyn Connell from Australia – BFM 89.9

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