Mastodawn

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-21/mud-turtle-rescue-at-gwydir-wetlands/106577116

#CopetonDam #Gwydir #Turtles #WaterNSW #Wetlands

Turtles buried under mud at NSW wetlands after water inflows halted

Researchers in north-west NSW are wading through thick mud in an attempt to save hundreds of turtles after the NSW government decided to stop supplying water to the protected wetland.

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Peter Riley Apr 20

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death?
(There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it.)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/20/wont-somebody-save-these-hundreds-of-turtles-condemned-to-death

Update 21st April
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-21/mud-turtle-rescue-at-gwydir-wetlands/106577116

#FirstNations #Kamilaroi

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/water-nsw-criticised-for-appalling-decision-after-hundreds-of-turtles-left-to-die-in-wetlands

#art #cartoons #CopetonDam #firstdogonthemoon #Gwidir #illustration #Moree #Turtles #WaterNSW

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death?

There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it

The Guardian

Stryder Notavi Apr 17

Well this isn't great - one landholder complains about overflow on their property and now 300 turtles get their river turned off.

Not WaterNSWs finest action there.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/18/incomprehensible-birds-flee-and-hundreds-of-turtles-left-to-die-after-government-cuts-water-to-nsw-wetlands

#politics #environment #WaterNSW

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands

Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

The Guardian