Researchers have pioneered a new way of calculating the large green sea turtle population on Raine Island in the Great Barrier Reef. Using drones and a stripe of white paint on the back of adult turtles, the researchers from the Raine Island Recovery Project estimated there were 64,000 endangered green turtles at the Raine Island rookery. The new count shows there may be 1.73 times the number of turtles previously believed and they have now been able to adjust historical data to paint a more accurate picture of the area’s endangered green turtle population
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Grab shell dude
The turtle being painted: "g-ddamn, teenagers!!!!"
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don’t tell china
wouldnt it be better to approach the island with a sailboat? i kind of think a propeller would be bit dangerous for that many turtles confined to a such small space
now all of that is gone 😭😭😭
Pls. don't ever allow chinese to go on that! they sweep all of these poor turtles 🤬
We save the turtles
Funny how the left tells us that the Great Barrier Reef is the only reef on the planet suffering from climate change.
This made my day. Love to see this happing.
Gives me hope!!!
now we can go back to plastic straws?
Yearly party
So are they still high on the endangered list?
Humans stay home for 2 months and the rest of the world thrives.
Wow beautiful
Yaay!
par contre le bateau a moteur c pas dangereux au milieu de ces tortues ?
64000 endangered turtles in one place. How is "endangered" defined?
В таких местах на лодках надо использовать весла , а не мотор, для передвижения. А то сколько черепах пометили , столько и покалечили лопастями мотора.
Hey honey, what did you do at work today?
Painted tuuurtles.
Now we will need some much bigger drones fitted with 30mm cannon to deal with the Chinese environmental pillage vessels which will no doubt soon turn up.
PROBLEM IS Dude to climate change all those turtles are probably the same sex as temperature determine the sex of the egg. I can't velive you didn't even mention that in this video. OK BOOMER
you should see the mating season a couple of months before this, in the Torres Straits….Love is in the sea
Chinese poachers : * heavy breathing*
Me and the boys waiting to become the next TMNT:
When was this footage taken?
Holy fking shet, GO Turtles! ❤️
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Who are the people that disliked this? What is wrong with you? LOL
I love turtles!!! They are so cuuuute!!!
Wow!!! So beautiful to see these little guys rolling over. ♥️😘😍🐢
Just a few months of global pandemic and the nature so alive thanks to it.
Imagine if we just learned to coexist better with our world.
So we are going to ignore that adorable turtle at 0:43 or
Is this where all the paint went
Could the increase be directly related to the reduction on boats allowed out of harbour, with fish stocks returning to some shallow waters and less hazards the population rebounded slightly ?
I thought Hawaii had a lot of turtles…
Yay for the turtles!