{"id":92960,"date":"2020-10-19T22:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wwf-australia-drones-to-drop-seeds-for-koala-gum-trees\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:12:17","slug":"wwf-australia-drones-to-drop-seeds-for-koala-gum-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wwf-australia-drones-to-drop-seeds-for-koala-gum-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"#WWF Australia drones to drop seeds for koala gum trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#WWF Australia drones to drop seeds for koala gum trees<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n MELBOURNE \u2013 Specialised drones are being tested in a program to boost koala numbers on Australia\u2019s east coast, dropping seeds of gum trees as part of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) scheme to regenerate bushland torched in the country\u2019s historic bushfires.<\/p>\n

Gum tree leaves are koala\u2019s main food source and restoring bushland and forest habitat razed in the 2019-2020 fires is key to their long-term survival in New South Wales state.<\/p>\n

The fires killed or displaced 3 billion mammals, birds and reptiles, the WWF estimates and destroyed or damaged up to 7 billion trees across 11 million hectares (37 million acres) of Australia\u2019s southeast, equal to half the area of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

WWF\u2019s Australia unit is seeking to raise A$300 million ($210 million) over five years to fund the initiative to try the seed drones and other methods to revive forest habitat, aiming to double koala numbers on the east coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe magnitude of the bushfire crisis requires us to respond at a scale that\u2019s never been done before,\u201d said WWF-Australia CEO Dermot O\u2019Gorman.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the new ways we\u2019re doing this is using drones that can put large amounts of seed across landscapes and \u2026 reach inaccessible areas much easier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Some of the WWF drones can plant 40,000 seeds a day and will help create corridors so that koalas and other wildlife can move across a landscape fragmented by fire and land clearing, O\u2019Gorman said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In June, a parliamentary inquiry found that koalas in New South Wales state could become extinct by 2050 unless immedia<\/a>te action is taken to protect them and their habitat.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s most recent bushfire season was one of its worst-ever, killing 34 people and destroying nearly 3,000 homes, after years of drought left bushlands unusually dry.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#WWF Australia drones to drop seeds for koala gum trees” MELBOURNE \u2013 Specialised drones are being tested in a program to boost koala numbers on Australia\u2019s east coast, dropping seeds of gum trees as part of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) scheme to regenerate bushland torched in the country\u2019s historic bushfires. Gum tree leaves are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/2020-10-19T035004Z_231935442_RC2FLJ9NJEM6_RTRMADP_3_AUSTRALIA-BUSHFIRES-WILDLIFE-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[76303,71595,20358,70734,10595,70317,70754,51935,76383],"class_list":["post-92960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-19-20","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-drones","tag-environment","tag-nature","tag-wildfires","tag-wildlife","tag-wwf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}