A new study of New Zealand’s lakes has found that around half of them are unhealthy.
A team of scientists from GNS Science and the Cawthron Institute is working on a project called Lakes380 to clean up 1700 contaminated lakes. They use special techniques like environmental DNA and high-resolution core scanning to collect data and study the health of lakes in New Zealand.
Co-leader Susie Wood said it’s important to take action before it’s too late. Our lakes are important not just culturally and socially, but also environmentally. We’re losing places that are culturally significant and our native freshwater species are threatened and declining in numbers.
The situation is much worse in the North Island where almost all of the island’s lakes are under threat due to urban development, farming, and forestry. What happens on the land has a significant impact on the water quality.
But there’s good news too! The team has launched an app to measure lake water quality which you can find on their website. So, let’s all work together to keep our lakes clean and healthy!
very interesting
I loved reading it because, I never knew that maybe chocolate might be gone in the future!
save the chocolate…
I enjoyed this reading because
it show what climate changes does!!
they might have to move most chocolate into a colder place, since the climate clock is getting low
so temperature might get higher.
i love chocolate
I’m allergic to dairy, but this makes me sad for my best friends all around NZ (don’t think it’s weird because I actually do). And my chocolate loving cousin, her name is Dana (I’m from South Korea and she told me how to spell her name in Korean but its not pronounced like Dana).
I know that there are chocolate lovers around the world so, poor them or if you like chocolate poor you (even though I’m allergic to dairy, or to make it easy dairy products: cheese, milk, butter etc).