Manning River Turtle researchers seeking locations

Julia Driscoll
Updated July 10 2023 - 5:07pm, first published December 13 2017 - 5:30pm
Elusive: The Manning River Helmeted Turtle is considered perhaps the most beautiful turtle in Australia and is very distinctive. Picture: Gary Stephenson
Elusive: The Manning River Helmeted Turtle is considered perhaps the most beautiful turtle in Australia and is very distinctive. Picture: Gary Stephenson

The Manning Valley’s own 55 million-year-old turtle, found only in our river and its catchments, has advocates both locally and outside the valley cheering on its survival.

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Julia Driscoll

Julia Driscoll

Journalist

Julia Driscoll has worked as a journalist for the Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Times for seven years. She values the deep connection with community that being a rural and regional journalist brings. Career highlights have involved environmental stories - bringing the plight of the little known endangered Manning River helmeted turtle to the attention of the public, resulting in wide-spread knowledge in the community and conservation action; and breaking the news of the Manning River ceasing to run for the first time in recorded history.

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