Limpus, 2007:

"Limpus et al. (2002) presented circumstantial evidence of a substantial population decline for the eastern Australian stock during the twentieth century. However, the same study demonstrated stability in the size of annual nesting population and size of the breeding females over the last three decades at Wild Duck Island, Curtis Island and the Woongarra Coast. Given this population stability over about a generation, given that the foraging distribution for the stock is effectively contained within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and given that >70% per cent of the nesting distribution is contained within National Parks and Conservation Parks, the modest sized eastern Australian N. depressus stock can be regarded as currently secure but conservation dependent." 

Citation and/or URL

Limpus, C. J., 2007, A biological review of the Australian Marine Turtles. 5. Flaback Turtle Natator depressus (Garman). The State of Queensland. Environmental Protection Agency. 53pp.

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/publications/p02340aa.pdf/A_biological_review_of_Australian_marine_turtles_5_Flatback_turtle_emNatator_depressus/em_Garman.pdf

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National

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>20 years

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