Endangered bum-breathing turtles and the town working to save them – video

In December 2024, when unseasonable flooding threatened the breeding season of a critically endangered turtle, Marilyn Connell and other members of a Queensland community conservation group sprang into action. The Mary river turtle is one of 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis

• Every year matters': Queensland's critically endangered bum-breathing' turtle battles the odds