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"To rescue a turtle, University of the Sunshine Coast PhD candidate Caitlin
Smith half-swam, half-crawled across mud on an inner tube. She tied a harness
around its chest and front flippers, so the rest of the team could carefully
pull it to safety. It was just one of 15 sick green turtles our team discovered
in recent weeks in the Great Sandy Strait near Queensland’s Hervey Bay.
It’s not just turtles struggling at the moment. A dead dugong was found nearby,
while another emaciated dugong was found still alive up the Noosa River.
They’re starving. Huge rains and floods have washed large quantities of
sediment out to sea, where it smothers the seagrass these marine creatures rely
on. There’s no relief in sight, as we enter our third wet year of La Niña."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
