Growing up in the bush I’ve always enjoyed doing stories on wildlife.
In this case the story was about some unusual pig-nosed turtles, something I had never come across before.
The turtles have been hatched in captivity in a Conservation Commission hatchery, but were being released into the Daly River after they had been used in a study by local scientists.
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Talent: Dr. Arthur Georges, Research consultant
To air: ABC-TV News, 30 December 1986
Links
- Pig-nosed turtle – wikipedia
- Daly river Middle reaches – sites of conservation significance
- Pig-nosed turtle – Institute for Applied Ecology
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