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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Beach walkers help unravel turtle mystery

Loggerhead turtle hatchlings after being helped from a nest on a busy beach on the Gold Coast. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Every now and then, under the cover of darkness, prehistoric-looking sea turtles lumber up busy Gold Coast beaches to nest.

Just metres from the tourist strip's imposing high-rise towers, loggerhead and green turtles seek out just the right spot in the sand dunes and begin to dig.

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