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turtle dietary preferences by species
Table 6. Nesting and internesting areas identified as habitat critical to the survival of marine turtles listed for each stock.
Table 7. Risk assessment matrix framework
Table 8. Summary of the threat risk assessment process undertaken for each genetic stock

List of Figures

Figure 1: Adult green turtle tracks, Raine Island, Queensland.
Figure 2. The generalised life cycle of marine turtles
Figure 3. Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting sites in Australia and surrounding regions.
Figure 4. Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting sites in Australia and surrounding regions.
Figure 5. Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting sites in Australia and surrounding regions.
Figure 6. Flatback turtle (Natator depressus) nesting sites in Australia and surrounding regions.
Figure 7. Olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting sites in Australia and surrounding regions.
Figure 8. Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) nesting sites in Australia and surrounding regions
Figure 9. Indicative dispersal for northern Great Barrier Reef and North West Shelf green turtle (Chelonia mydas) stocks
Figure 10. Indicative dispersal for Coral Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria and Ashmore Reef green turtle (Chelonia mydas) stocks
Figure 11. Indicative dispersal for southern Great Barrier Reef, Scott-Browse, Cocos Keeling and Cobourg green turtle (Chelonia mydas) stocks
Figure 12. Indicative dispersal for the south-west Pacific and Western Australia loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) stocks
Figure 13. Indicative dispersal for the north-east Arnhem Land and north Queensland hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) stocks
Figure 14. Indicative dispersal for the Arafura Sea, Cape Domett, eastern Queensland and Pilbara flatback turtle (Natator depressus) stocks
Figure 15. Indicative dispersal for the Northern Territory and north-western Cape York olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) stocks

Executive Summary

Introduction
Six of the world's seven species of marine turtles occur in Australian waters and are protected under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). These species are the EPBC Act listed threatened 'endangered' loggerhead (Caretta caretta), olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea), and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) turtles, and 'vulnerable' green (Chelonia mydas), flatback (Natator depressus) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) turtles.
Marine turtles are found throughout Australia's marine environment and are most common across northern Australia. Australia has some of the largest marine turtle nesting rookeries in the Indo-Pacific region and is the only country where flatback turtles nest.
Anecdotal evidence from European explorers indicates that marine turtles were abundant in Australian waters in the early 1800s[44, 82]. From the mid-1800s turtles became subject to commercial harvest by European settlers for general consumption (meat and eggs), canned turtle soup, meat export, and for the tortoiseshell trade. Although commercial harvest ceased in the mid-1900s, it contributed to an observable decline in nesting numbers. Contemporary threats, including habitat degradation, fisheries bycatch, nest predation and marine debris, have also