Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.
Edit: *where I live
You can’t bring anything that could carry non-native lifeforms on it, to preserve Antarctica’s unique Flora and Fauna from invasive species.
What, not even our nice Norwegian ~shape-shifting assimilating microbes~dogs?
EDIT: I am sad lemmy doesn’t appear to support strikethrough.
Doesn’t work for me? Vivaldi (Chrome-based browser, desktop) using old.lemmy.ca
Oh… ha, I browse using the ‘mlmym.org’ theme. Using www.lemmy.ca I see it works. Must be a bug in the theme. I’ll see who I can report to, for a fix. Thanks.
Wouldn’t anything that didn’t evolve to deal with Antarctica’s brutal climate just immediately die?
With the number of species that live on a stick, you could get unlucky and transport one which would randomly happen to have traits good for thriving in Antartica.
I agree, but don’t humans carry the even more microbial live than sticks? And what about birds and seals? I am guessing there is quite a lot of exchange of microbes between Antarctica and the other continents.