How an island once famous for its canned turtle soup is now helping save the Great Barrier Reef

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Scientists from around the world come to Heron Island in the hope of fighting the impacts of climate change at ground zero, a stark contrast to the island's dark history of exploitation and slaughter.

Damon Shearer, armed with a pair of binoculars and a clipboard, conducts a bird count twice a year on North West Island.

The station, which can house more than 140 researchers at a time, is unique — it is the only research centre that sits on top of a reef, allowing scientists to carry out their work on site. "We're expecting sea temperatures to increase, bleaching events to happen more often, and reproductive processes in corals are very sensitive to changes in temperature," she says.In bleaching events, corals produce fewer eggs and sperm, so less fertilisation happens.

Dave Adams has collected newly laid turtle eggs from nests all around the island and relocated them here. "However, it's a fair bet that if you have 100 times as many females as males, it could come to the point where there are so few males available that we start to see the population begin to decline."Meanwhile, Kenny Wolfe and his team are searching for predators to juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish.

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