Significance of the Gnaraloo Bay Rookery
A rookery with 300 turtle nests per season is considered to be a significant turtle breeding area. The number of nests per breeding season in the Gnaraloo Bay Rookery has…
Gnaraloo staff become honorary calm officers
Gnaraloo staff successfully underwent an Honorary CALM Officer Law enforcement training course by the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) during August 2010. This involved 2 days of intensive training…
Results of Fox Control during season 2010/11
The European red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is listed nationally as a key threatening process, posing a significant threat to Australia’s native animals. Since 2008, Gnaraloo has undertaken a specialized fox…
Important trend analysis of 8 years
In addition to analyzing data from the season 2010/11, the GTCP team considered data on the Gnaraloo turtles going back to 2000. Matt, the GTCP Team leader 2010/11, spent hours…
Disturbances and predation of Gnaraloo turtles
The main direct threats to successful clutch development identified during the monitoring season 2010/11 were Ghost crab disturbance and predation as well as tidal erosion and inundation due to cyclones. …
Nest statistics 2010/11
Monitoring work at Gnaraloo drew to an early close on 7 February 2011, with significantly reduced turtle beach activities being observed in the study area. GTCP researchers left Gnaraloo shortly thereafter…
PCYC Carnarvon visits
On 29 January 2011, the GTCP hosted a 6 person group from PCYC Carnarvon for the duration of a week-end. The group comprising of 3 local teenagers with their supervisors…
Presentation at Nagle Catholic College, Geraldton
Karen Hattingh (Gnaraloo’s Environmental Advisor), Matt Boureau (GTCP Team Leader) and Marie Duffy (GTCP Community Volunteer Co-ordinator) were received at Nagle Catholic College in Geraldton during February 2011 to give…
DEC visit, end of site monitoring and write-up in Gerladton
Matthew Prophet, the Nature Conservation Co-ordinator of the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) Exmouth District and Colin Valentine, a ‘turtle tracker trainer’ with the Ningaloo Turtle Program in Exmouth,…
Interesting golden ghost crab specimen observed in Gnaraloo Rookery
GTCP researchers 2010/11 noticed a quite unusual specimen of Golden ghost crab (Ocypode convexa) in the monitored Gnaraloo rookery at the end of November 2010. Golden ghost crabs (Ocypode convexa)…
