Swap hiking boot samples for coffee discounts: Calls for Kangaroo Island tourists to become citizen scientists
abc.net.au/news/sa-kangaroo-island-citizen-science-project/101815402A new project is calling on holiday-makers heading to Kangaroo Island, off South Australia's mainland, to take part in a unique environmental study on their travels.Visitors to Kangaroo Island are being asked to provide useful conservation and ecology information to researchersThe program is backed by the federal government
The Dirty Boots project, for example, asks hikers to take a swab of their dirty boots and send the sample in for analysis. "After the mapping has started, we'll be able to identify different areas that are infected and then limit the amount of movement in these areas so it doesn't spread and cause more problems."
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