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Ade Adepitan addresses what he calls âthe elephant in the roomâ fairly early on in his new three-part series, Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline (BBC Two). For the purposes of this show, Adepitan travels first to the Solomon Islands, then to Australia, ending this first stage of his trip in Tasmania. He is, he says, aware that flying to these places is not ideal, but he believes it is important to âsee and meet the people being impacted by climate change every dayâ.
One of the most successful points made by the series is that the people being severely impacted by climate change are rarely the people who have contributed much to its increasingly rapid and destructive march. In the Solomon Islands, he meets a woman who would hop across the water to visit the small island where her grandparents had a home. It used to be dense forest. She shows Adepitan a photograph from 10 years ago, and it looks like paradise. She takes
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Heron Island Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Heron Island Loggerhead Sea Turtle
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Heron Island, located on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, just on the Tropic of Capricorn is the breeding ground for two of the worldâs largest populations of green sea turtles and loggerhead sea turtles. The green turtle is also known as the Chelonia mydas, green turtle, black turtle, or the Pacific sea turtle. This particular species of turtle is found in the Cheloniidae family. 60,000 and more female Chelonia mydas turtles swim thousands of kilometres from their feeding grounds in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait and the West Pacific, to this family sized island to lay their eggs. The loggerhead sea turtle in other words known as the Coretta Coretta, is an oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a
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THE Great Barrier Reef is already in a critical state. Rising sea temperatures are killing corals faster than they can recover. As temperatures continue to increase, more and more of the reef will die, along with the rich variety of life and the AUS$6 billion tourism industry that depend on it.
It is one headline-grabbing example among many. The continued rapid warming of the planet would wipe out many species, even if it were the only change happening. As it is, a sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is already under way as farms replace forests and factory ships overfish the oceans.