Teaching with turtles: the NSW program turning school students into conservationists

Schools host the reptiles and visit them in wetlands. Environmental groups say it augurs well for an activist future

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When students from Lithgow visited wetlands near their primary school west of Sydney, they quickly picked up on a problem: there was nowhere for turtles.

A bunch of students said there are no logs or rocks here, so where are they going to bask?" says Associate Professor Ricky Spencer from Western Sydney University. I thought, that is a good point."