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Environmentalists are worried bright lights and foot traffic from a controversial multi-million-dollar development earmarked for Yaroomba will deter the crucial laying turtle population in the south-east. The chief scientist at Queensland's Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, Dr Col Limpus, said there were instances where lights and development had deterred loggerhead turtles from laying on Queensland beaches.

On the Sunshine Coast and going south there is a tendency to providing male hatchings. A new hotel development will sit on the dunes of Yaroomba Beach, directly across the road from the defunct Palmer Coolum Resort. The hectares of beachfront land has been earmarked for a five-star, seven-storey resort development that will feature rooms, serviced apartments, apartments of storeys, and 98 homes of storeys. Sekisui House is currently seeking a preliminary approval from the Sunshine Coast Council of the Yaroomba Beach Master Plan and a development permit to begin the first stage of the development at the David Low Way site.

Three years ago, the proponents failed in a bid to have the planning scheme amended in order to accommodate a future development application as Coast councillors voted against the changes. The project has since divided the community due to concerns about height restrictions and light concerns with close to 10, submissions to the Sunshine Coast Council. However, data obtained exclusively by the ABC shows 22 loggerhead turtles and two green turtles nested in front of the proposed development site between and — 17 more than quoted in the report prepared by Golder to the proponents Sekisui.

In a statement provided to the ABC, the Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said it is the proponents' responsibility to refer a project under national environment law. We believe that the EPBC Act needs to be triggered because of the vulnerable population here," she said.

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Weather patterns conspire for turtle 'baby boom'. Spaniels coming to the rescue to save baby turtles. A loggerhead turtle nest sits in front of the proposed Sekisui development site at Yaroomba on the Sunshine Coast. Environmentalists are worried bright lights and foot traffic from a controversial multi-million-dollar development earmarked for Yaroomba will deter the crucial laying turtle population in the south-east.

The chief scientist at Queensland's Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, Dr Col Limpus, said there were instances where lights and development had deterred loggerhead turtles from laying on Queensland beaches. On the Sunshine Coast and going south there is a tendency to providing male hatchings. A new hotel development will sit on the dunes of Yaroomba Beach, directly across the road from the defunct Palmer Coolum Resort.

The hectares of beachfront land has been earmarked for a five-star, seven-storey resort development that will feature rooms, serviced apartments, apartments of storeys, and 98 homes of storeys. Sekisui House is currently seeking a preliminary approval from the Sunshine Coast Council of the Yaroomba Beach Master Plan and a development permit to begin the first stage of the development at the David Low Way site.

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Weather patterns conspire for turtle 'baby boom'. Spaniels coming to the rescue to save baby turtles.