New Delivery of SOSNT

Community volunteers at Bibra Lake – Steve Beatty/ Murdoch University

In 2025 delivery of Saving Our Snake-Necked Turtle (SOSNT) changed following a loss of funding. 

If you have been part of SOSNT up to now we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude for your invaluable support and partnership to date. Your commitment to conserving our native wildlife has made a significant impact, and we truly appreciate your dedication and collaboration. 

We would also like to thank our partner in this project, the Perth South West Metropolitan Alliance and Dr Kath Broderick, for their contribution to this project. 

As the project approaches the end of its current form, we wanted to let you know of the transition to the new delivery and outline the next steps. The SOSNT project has achieved many successes, including monitoring 24 wetlands for over 3700 hours, and safeguarding over 1500 turtles and 1500 nests, and we are committed to ensuring that the momentum built over the years can be sustained. 

This is not the end just a change in delivery:

Everyone can still record all their turtle sightings using TurtleSAT, secure in the knowledge that this data will go directly to the SOSNT team and directly inform our capacity to update the turtle’s conservation status. This will enable conservation to be properly funded and resourced. It will also increase our scientific understanding of the species and management options. 

Key components of the SOSNT program are being provided to local councils and community groups either free (pre-recorded information and turtle tracker training presentations available online) or at cost (in-person community talks, analysis of ‘Turtle Tracker’ collected data, and turtle population surveys). Local councils and community groups can start turtle tracking groups if they haven’t already. Just contact us at sosnt@murdoch.edu.au. 

Our goal is to make it as straightforward as possible for councils and partners to continue vital conservation efforts.

We look forward to working together to preserve the future of our snake-necked turtles.