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, highlights emerging research that is providing hope for one
population thought to be threatened by climate change. This
video shows researchers taking part in the hair on island
turtle cooling project, which was an experiment to determine
if seawater could lower sand temperatures now because there are
hotter sand temperatures due to climate change. Historically,
far more female hatchlings are produced than males. So
scientists have been fearing that green sea turtles are facing
the threat of a man drought and concerned that the
population could decline. However, new drone surveys of
heron island in Queensland Australia have found promising data.
They just discovered that there are actually just as many
males as females turning up to mate leave author of
University Queensland PhD candidate melissa stain said quote, females
require huge amounts of energy to reproduce, meaning they
can only breed every 5 to 7 years, whereas
males can breed every 2 to 3 years. The
equal number of breeding males and females was despite an
estimate that female hatchlings outnumber the amount of males produce
from the region. Now, during the peak of
the breeding season, back in october of 2021 the
research team used jones to study 38 male and 36
female turtles engaging in courtship and breeding behavior and in
2018, scientists revealed that for the past few decades
green turtle hatching on the rain island, about 1500
kilometers north of Heron Island, have been more than
99% female. The new research, published in the
International journal Marine Biology in november, is great news
for the southern great barrier reef population of green turtles --> .