Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.
Edit: *where I live
Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.
Edit: *where I live
You can’t bring anything that could carry non-native lifeforms on it, to preserve Antarctica’s unique Flora and Fauna from invasive species.
What, not even our nice Norwegian ~shape-shifting assimilating microbes~dogs?
EDIT: I am sad lemmy doesn’t appear to support strikethrough.
Lemmy
doesn’tsupport strikethrough.Bookend two tildes for strike through ~~ stuff ~~ =
stuffDoesn’t work for me? Vivaldi (Chrome-based browser, desktop) using old.lemmy.ca
Oh… ha, I browse using the ‘mlmym.org’ theme. Using
www.lemmy.caI see it works. Must be a bug in the theme. I’ll see who I can report to, for a fix. Thanks.Explain these ‘dogs’ please
Wouldn’t anything that didn’t evolve to deal with Antarctica’s brutal climate just immediately die?
Life will…uhh… find a way.
With the number of species that live on a stick, you could get unlucky and transport one which would randomly happen to have traits good for thriving in Antartica.
I agree, but don’t humans carry the even more microbial live than sticks? And what about birds and seals? I am guessing there is quite a lot of exchange of microbes between Antarctica and the other continents.
Yea, you’re right, and I don’t have any counter point. I don’t know what the experts think about this.