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Two rangers standing in bushland in South Australia.

An Aboriginal ranger looking at a dug up turtle nest.

"But now it's really sad, you go near a little creek or waterways and you don't see turtles."
A small turtle on land in long dry grass.

A tiny baby short-necked turtle held up by someone in their hand near a lake.

"About 100 per cent of nests are getting dug up by foxes in some areas, which is stopping juveniles getting back into the system,"
she said.
Two hands with broken up turtle eggs.

A man with a bushy brown beard, wearing an akubra hat, holds a broad shelled turtle at the edge of a lake.

"The challenge with turtles is to go from an egg to an adult might take 10-20 years,"
he said.

A woman and a man who are rangers surveying for turtle nests in long grasses.

"The turtles are the ones that really cleaned the river, and that's why it's so important for us to protect them and bring them back,"
she said.
A hand holds a tiny turtle on top of the water at sunset.

A wetland area in South Australia.

A broadshell turtle in the wild.

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