It’s Turtle Time!
Welcome all TurtleWatchers to a brand new nesting season for NSW TurtleWatch and our nesting marine turtles along the NSW coastline. The turtles are definitely on their way, with nesting season starting November 1st. With the state of our beaches at the moment, this season it will be more important than ever to have as many people out walking our coastlines as we can, so we can ensure we can save as many nests as possible. So, we are once again asking locals to become citizen scientists and monitor your local beach for signs of nesting turtles and collect important data on potential threats on your beach, to help us guage the suitability of our beaches as nesting habitat, now and in the future. We are kicking off this season with an informal online training session, to either act as a refresher course for pre-existing volunteers or to welcome and train new citizen scientists into all things TurtleWatch!
The training workshop will start out with some introductions into nesting in NSW, then dive right into a recap of last years numbers. Following this, the remainder of the workshop will focus on beach monitoring and teaching new volunteers how to do a beach patrol and reporting your walk, using the NSW TurtleWatch App. There will be time remaining at the end to help everyone to use the App and for questions. We will have a lucky door prize for one lucky attendee.
We are also running this session online, with sessions available on Monday the 3rd of November 6:30-7:30pm and Monday 27th of October at 6:30-7:30pm . Please see the other events to register for a different session. All sessions will deliver the exact same content. Please email turtlewatchnsw@gmail.com with any questions.
