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
can’t bring sticks? i have questions
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.
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.
Is there no flotsam from elsewhere washed ashore in Antartica?
But independent of that, I think that’s an awesome ice stick!
“…there are no sticks here. Nothing grows…” so far…
[…] we demonstrate a clear but nonlinear trend towards a greater area of vegetation cover across the [Antarctic Peninsula] in recent decades […] Crucially, the rate of change in vegetation cover has increased considerably in recent years
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Regardless of the complexities discussed in the preceding, the overall statistically significant trajectory of APwide greening from 1986 to 2021 […] provides strong evidence of rapid and ongoing response of AP vegetation to climate change, and presents a compelling case for future widespread changes in the AP’s terrestrial ecosystems.
Local variants of sticks are acceptable.
… I’m just going to be technical and point out that it’s currently summer in Antarctica …