Washed up Hi-Tech Tracker Buoys Brilliantly Redeployed to Protect Turtles from ‘Ghost Nets’

Hi-tech GPS-tracking buoys washing up on Australian beaches were a strange find during a litter clean-up for the non-profit Tangaroa Blue.

On a normal day of operations for the marine debris prevention group, large numbers of these buoys were discovered on Cape York coast near Australia’s northeastern tip manufactured in Spain by a company called Satlink.

Rather than taking them to the dump and putting them in the e-waste dumpster, Tangaroa Blue founder Heidi Tait has secured permission from the Spanish company to put them to use tracking ‘ghost nets’.

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