Australia to Evacuate Macquarie Island Staff Over Bird Flu Fears
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Australia will evacuate 24 Macquarie Island expeditioners in October to avoid the psychological and operational impact of a potential bird-flu outbreak near a large elephant-seal colony, with the RSV Nuyina set to retrieve the team and remote monitoring planned; the roughly $370m station rebuild is temporarily slowed but long-term Antarctic presence will continue.
- Fear of mass seal deaths triggers Australian withdrawal from remote island ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Icebreaker to Extract Macquarie Island Researchers Due to Bird Flu Fear The Maritime Executive
- Dolphin dies from H5 bird flu in SA as researchers withdrawn from sub-Antarctic island over ‘psychosocial risk’ The Guardian
- Bird flu threat gets real for elephant seals Dungog Shire News Of The Area
- Bird flu could devastate Macquarie Island. Why are we removing the scientists we need to understand it? Australian Rural & Regional News
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