Turtles rescued from the Gingham Waterhole in north-west NSW have begun returning, while keepers at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo incubate more than 250 eggs laid by females brought into care.

For decades, we’ve done it for Peanut. When the red-eared slider turtle was small, she swam into a plastic six-pack ring, which got stuck around her shell. Her shell grew around the ring, warping into ...