Feedback

Leave comments or report a bug

Simply leave your comments below. If the feedback is about a bug, please provide the steps you took so we can replicate.

Upload files

You can use CTR+V to paste a screenshot from your clipboard directly into the textarea above. Otherwise you can upload a file from your computer below.

Select a theme

These themes change the colour scheme and fonts of this site to make it easier to read.

If there are ways that we can make the site more accessible to you, please contact us.

back to top
Back to top
In this section

Tracking sea turtles for science

Satellite tags allow us to track sea turtle migration for science.

Since 1975 thousands of turtles have been tagged to help scientists understand more about the various stages in their life cycles.

In 1975 more than 7,000 Loggerhead hatchlings were tagged at Mon Repos in southeast Queensland. One of the returning turtles, named Premiere, was fitted with a satellite tracker in 2003 to assist scientists to understand more about her home ranges during the nesting period and outside of nesting time.

Premiere joined three green turtles, Dean, Ted and Moreton, all of which were fitted with satellite trackers in 2002 and another loggerhead, Jimmy, fitted with one in May 2003.

To learn more about the adventures of Premiere, Dean, Moreton, Jimmy and Ted visit the Queensland DES website.

All the research and tracking projects undertaken around the world are contributing to a growing bank of knowledge that is helping us understand and protect the endangered sea turtles. Council is also monitoring marine turtle nesting along the coast line, see the marine turtle nest monitoring map for more details.

Tracking sea turtles on the Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast turtle tracking map

Loggerhead Turtles, Bullumby (133768) and First Lady (236574) tracking results from the 2022/2023 nesting season on the Sunshine Coast.The first Loggerhead turtle tracked with Sunshine Coast Council’s TurtleCare program in 2012, and again in 2018. In 2022, Council again partnered with Dr Col Limpus from the Department of Environment and Science to track two nesting Loggerheads and follow their movements during the inter-nesting and post-nesting migrations from the nesting beaches of the Sunshine Coast. This project contributes to the growing research on Loggerhead turtles in eastern Australia.

Find out more by reading this scientific paper "Satellite tagging and flipper tag recoveries reveal migration patterns and foraging distribution of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from eastern Australia | SpringerLink".

An update on their stories, including their movements from the 2022-23 season of tracking to date is shown in their stories.

Subpages