Emerging research shows hope in sea turtle "man drought." Cheddar News explains.

Researchers in Australia have discovered new information suggesting that green sea turtles are not at risk of a “man drought.”

One Good Thing: Research Shows Hope in Sea Turtle "Man Drought"

and we know the world can be tough sometimes with a seemingly endless stream of negativity. So to take a break, we'd like to tell you about one good thing happening in the world today is good thing 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 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.