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'It's night-time on Heron Island, near the Great Barrier Reef in 2019.
A group of scientists gather around a collection of green turtle eggs, gently
placing them in experimental nests irrigated with seawater to lower their
temperature.
The level of human intervention is novel and notably hands-on, but the risk of
not acting is too great.
Rising temperatures have warmed the sand — If the turtle's eggs become too hot,
the hatchlings will all be born females and threaten to destabilise the
vulnerable species's population.
It's one of over 400 conservation "interventions" that are now publicly
available in a new online database called AdaptLog.
For project lead Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas, it will provide a glimmer of hope
amid the news that global warming records blew past a key target last year.
"This is a new tool that can help conservationists think about what to do when
environments are changing incredibly quickly," Dr Melbourne-Thomas, a principal
research scientist at the CSIRO, said.
"Some species just aren't able to keep up with that rate of change naturally,
and we're needing to find new ways of doing things to protect biodiversity."
"There's threats from climate change included in the database that relate to
bush fire, drought, flooding, extreme temperatures, and often users are dealing
with several of those threats."
The online resource is unique in Australia — a list of innovative conservation
projects laid out in detail, and supported by the Federal government's Natural
Environmental Science Program (NESP) Climate Systems Hub, the CSIRO and the
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Australia.
It's aim, to showcase conservation solutions at-home and abroad that address
climate impacts on vulnerable places and species.'
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
