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URGENT HELP REQUIRED – DONATIONS NEEDED – PLEASE SHARE

We need your urgent help tonight. It’s for something special. It really is and we need you all to chip in to make it happen.

River turtles can succumb to different threats at specific stages of their life. For the past 20 years, We have enacted successful conservation measures to increase survival of egg/hatchling stage of the endangered Mary River turtle. However these successes hasn't led to an increase in the population.

The focus is now on addressing the next threat, ie to juvenile Mary River turtles. We’re partnering with researchers from Charles Darwin University to investigate their survivorship in the wild.

Acoustic tags allow the detection and movement of animals.

Excitingly by tracking the movements of juvenile turtles over time, we will understand their behaviour and survivorship. Results of these investigations will guide the next stage of reducing the threats to juvenile Mary River turtles. It is just so important we conduct this research. For the turtles. To save lives.

We need to raise at least $8,500. This will purchase 30 acoustic tags (approx $280 each) which will be attached to 30 juvenile Mary River turtles. The greater the number of turtles that are tagged, the more robust are the results.

Tonight, it’s in your hands to save lives. It really is. You can do something magical for our turtles.

Just $5 from each and every one of you would help get us over the line. It’s the cost of your next cup of coffee but one that will help us so much.

If you could please write the word DONE below after you have donated that would be great and remember to please please share this post far and wide

This is our time of need and we need you.

Please donate now: https://mary-river-turtle-public-fund.giveeasy.org/please-help-us

What an exciting week for the team! We are very pleased to welcome the new team member, our very own Chief Remote Pilot Rebecca Ludgate! Welcome to Darwin Rebecca!

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Charles Darwin University
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Huge congratulations to our very own Rebecca Rogers for handing in your Ph.D. thesis! Well done for submitting such great work! Thesis entitled "Harnessing the potential of weather surveillance radar to monitor waterbirds in Australia." It's time to celebrate!!! 🎉

RIEL - Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University

MLE Lab team back in QLD - so great to be part of this project!

Punk rock bum-breathing turtle goes techno for science Why are these techno punk turtles being released into the wild?

We'd like to welcome the Ph.D. candidate Razib Ahmed, who will be undertaking his research into the use of autonomous aircraft to better understand the factors responsible for heat islands in the Darwin urban landscape. The project will monitor innovative urban designs as a component of the Darwin Living Lab – a 10-year program aiming to cool the ambient temperature of the Darwin CBD. Welcome, Razib!
RIEL - Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University

https://besmovesig.wordpress.com/movemapcompetition-2/pretty-category/

Check out the entries into the British Ecological Society Movement Ecology Group movement map competition. Plenty of pretty maps showing animal movements, R wizardry and downright movement ecology nerdyness

“Pretty” category Entries submitted to the pretty category are judged on their beauty/artistic merit. Please click on one of the figures below to expand the Gallery and a see description below each figure – from her…

It gives us great pleasure to welcome to the MLE-Lab Ph.D. Candidate Vanya Bosiocic, who will be solving the challenges of integrating drones into the healthcare supply chain in the Northern Territory. Welcome and good luck Vanya!
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One of our satellite tagged volunteers released and ready for drone thermal tracking

Congratulations to Brittany Hayward-Brown for achieving a First Class with high distinction for her Honours thesis "Gouldian Finches (Chloebia gouldiae) increase flight activity and ranging behaviour as the dry season progresses in northern Australian savannas". The MLE-Lab wishes you all the luck in your future endeavours!
RIEL - Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods
Charles Darwin University