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Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture with special responsibility for farm safety Martin Heydon.
Farmers can expect to see all schemes rolled out in the next CAP to have a strong focus on health and safety requirements, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Martin Heydon has advised.
The next CAP is due to begin on 1 January 2023 and the process of preparing new schemes and measures as part of the development of Ireland’s national strategic plan is currently under way.
Minister Heydon, who has special responsibly for farm safety, told the Seanad on Monday it was his view that all measures in the strategic plan should have a health and safety element incorporated.
Siouxsie Wiles05:00, May 10 2021
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Predatory crown-of-thorns starfish feed on and damage a tropical coral reef.
OPINION: I’ve recently become quite fascinated with corals. My interest was sparked after reading a scientific study about a coral bleaching event that happened in Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawaiʻi, in 2015. Dr Ty Roach and colleagues were trying to understand why some corals bleached during the event and others didn’t, in the hopes of identifying corals that could be used to regenerate damaged reefs. While I’ve always thought coral reefs were beautiful and I’d read and heard about how toxins and high-water temperatures can cause them to bleach, I’d never really thought much about what coral actually were or how bleaching happened.
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Coral are not completely defenceless against attacking juvenile crown of thorns starfish and can fight back to inflict at times lethal damage, new research has found.
This occurs during a period of the crown of thorns starfish life cycle, where small juveniles shift from a vegetarian diet of algae to coral prey. But this change in diet makes the juveniles more vulnerable to attack by coral.
Population outbreaks of adult crown of thorns starfish, alongside coral bleaching is one of the greatest threats to tropical reef habitats.
Video footage shows when the tube feet (small tube-like projections on the underside of a starfish s arm used for movement) of juvenile crown of thorns starfish reaches out to touch the coral, the entire arm curls back to avoid the corals defensive stinging cells. To protect themselves, coral polyps have stinging cells in their sweeper tentacles and outer tissue called nematocysts, that are also used to capture food.