Australia’s blue carbon budget

Posted by Tom Rayner
On September 13, 2019
accounting, action, Australia, blue, budget, carbon, climate, climate change, economics, global, global warming, mangrove, Nature Communications, policy, saltmarsh, seagrass

Turtley sick moves: rescuing weak sea turtles and the science aimed at helping their equally weak populations

Posted by Ryan Pearson
On April 26, 2019
Australia, care, coastal, conservation, dive, diving, pearson, rescue, SCUBA, sea turtle, sievers, turtle, wetland, wildlife

Sea turtles are threatened. Literal boat loads of things affect their already low survival rates, most attributable to humans. Plastics, fishing entanglements, temperature increases, habitat degradation and actual boat strikes are killing turtles and affecting their populations in many other ways. Ultimately threatening their very existence. Knowing this, when my buddy Dr Michael Sievers and […]