Take a look at this impressive underwater army on mission
- 8 years ago
Take a look at this impressive underwater army on mission Armed with only scuba suits and syringes, an army of divers is taking on one of the biggest threats to the Great Barrier Reef - the Crown of Thorns starfish - one shot at a time.
Thanks to a new culling technique, which sees the starfish injected with bile salts from cattle, The team is reclaiming reef territory faster than ever before.
One quick and simple injection euthanizes a starfish, without harming the reef, a far cry from the previous method in which divers had to inject the reef pests up to 30 times.
Thanks to a new culling technique, which sees the starfish injected with bile salts from cattle, The team is reclaiming reef territory faster than ever before.
One quick and simple injection euthanizes a starfish, without harming the reef, a far cry from the previous method in which divers had to inject the reef pests up to 30 times.