Drone technology helps researchers count turtles on Great Barrier Reef

Issued: 28 Aug 2020

Researchers at Raine Island, the world’s largest green turtle rookery, have used a drone to conduct accurate population surveys, with stunning results.

Drone vision captured in December 2019 as part of the Raine Island Recovery Project showed up to 64,000 green turtles around the island waiting to come ashore and lay clutches of eggs.

Material relating to this announcement can be downloaded below:

• Media release
• Video – Raine Island turtle aggregate aerial 1
• Video – Raine Island turtle aggregate aerial 2
• Video – Nesting turtles aerial
• Video – Drone overlay HD
• Photo – Raine Island turtle aggregate
• Photo – Nesting turtles
• Research paper.