Queensland: Hervey Bay nesting turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Citation
Strydom A. 2023. Queensland: Hervey Bay nesting turtles. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1925) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1342). https://doi.org/10.15468/yypzq9 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.Description
Original provider: Aubrey Strydom Dataset credits: Data provider Aubrey Strydom Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Project partner Hervey Bay Turtle Volunteers, of the Lower Mary River Land and Catchment Care Group Inc. (LMRL&CCG Inc - Landcare).Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee (MRCCC - Landcare)
Fraser Coast Regional Council
Burnett Mary Regional Group for Natural Resource Management.
Queensland Parks & Wildlife, Great Sandy Marine Park.
Queensland Turtle Conservation Research Program: Aquatic Threatened Species Unit, (Department of Environment & Science). Abstract: Before it was taken from them by British colonization of Queensland in the mid 1800's, the land and waters now part of Hervey Bay were owned and used for millennia by the Butchulla Aboriginal people.
One of their enterprises included the construction and manipulation of elaborate stone walled tidal fish traps, and the harvest from these included sea turtles.
On 13th December 2019 the Butchulla people received official Australian Federal Court recognition of their Native Title Claim over land including Hervey Bay, following recognition of nearby K'gari (Fraser Island) in 2014.
Urbanized Hervey Bay - today's busy city began as a string of small holiday villages, which merged into one long foreshore township after WW2.
Little was known to the new European population of its nesting loggerhead and green turtles.
By the 1980's it was a city, and nests were being dug by dogs and foxes, and lights from the streets and houses were confusing the emerging hatchlings, drawing them inland, and they were being found dead from exhaustion in the street gutters.
The Local Councils for the last 2 decades have had a turtle friendly management program to provide a darker beach: including foreshore tree planting, installing low intensity sodium vapor and amber street lights along the foreshore roads and parks, and a fox den location and elimination program. The turtles have benefited from better Council domestic animal management, which means that now very few dogs stray from their yards.
The turtle nest monitoring program has been run since 2002 by the Lower Mary River Land and Catchment Care Group (Landcare).
Under supervision of team leaders Lesley & Don Bradley, trained at the Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service's Mon Repos Turtle Conservation Centre, volunteers check the beach in the early morning, and collect data on attempted and successful nesting.
Successful nests are relocated further up the beach if necessary, marked, protected with aluminium mesh, and then monitored regularly for the duration of their incubation period, for depredation by foxes and un-managed dogs, loss to storm tides, and interference by community members.
After emergence the nests are dug up and shell counts are made to establish hatching success percentages. Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
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marine, harvested by iOBISTaxonomic Coverages
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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Caretta carettacommon name: Loggerhead sea turtle rank: species
Geographic Coverages
Oceans
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Aubrey Strydomoriginator
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Aubrey Strydom
email: aub.strydom@uqconnect.edu.au
OBIS-SEAMAP
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Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
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Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: https://seamap.env.duke.edu
Aubrey Strydom
owner
position: Primary contact
Aubrey Strydom
email: aub.strydom@uqconnect.edu.au
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
originator
seaturtle.org
email: mcoyne@seaturtle.org
homepage: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/
Aubrey Strydom
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Aubrey Strydom
email: aub.strydom@uqconnect.edu.au