Raina MacIntyre
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 4 Aug
Raina MacIntyre’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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imaginary line between Indonesia and Australia called the Wallace Line.
And invasive species tend not to cross that line.
And so we've been protected because the flyways of the waterfowl don't cross Australia.
So the ducks, geese, and swans.
But now there's a huge number of other birds, including these seabirds that are coming from Antarctica down entirely different routes.
than what avian flu used to spread through.
Some local transmission has occurred between a number of greater crested terns that are resident in South Australia.
How significant is that?
Yeah, that's really important because once we've got infection of birds like the terns which are present in Australia, they're endemic birds,
They have their own flyways to fly around in Australia and spread it within Australia.
So we're now amplifying the ways in which this virus can spread within Australia.
Obviously a very concerning development.
It is not unexpected and is certainly what we have seen overseas with this type of incursion of the H5.
It's spreading pretty quickly.
I mean, this started in June and it's just escalated ever since.
And I believe for every detection, there's probably undetected infected birds as well, because there could be areas of bushland, for example, where there are no humans wandering through to observe anything.
It's just telling us the scale is increased and the risk is
to our native wildlife and to our farming industry is increased.
So in terms of our birds, I think, you know, we've got unique birds like the emu, they're at risk.
Our other native birds like cockatoos, galahs, we've got some native parrots as well that are endangered, which would be at risk.
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