This in the wake of the Dreaming Snake that was blown out of the water because Mick O'Learty "interpreted" that the dreaming snake would be affected.
"Scientist Mick O'Leary bragged to worried Tiwi Islanders how he had stopped a massive Woodside Energy project by finding ancient proof of Aboriginal songlines.
Now he wanted to help the Islanders use their Dreamtime beliefs to stop energy giant Santos from building a $5.8billion 262km-long gas pipeline off their shores.
Except... he lied, and Dr O'Leary has now been savaged by a judge, who branded his evidence in a landmark Federal Court case as 'useless' with 'no factual support'. "
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/mick-the-scientist-gave-a-tedx-speech-a..."The dusky sea snake is
unlikely to occur in the following mapped, predicted, or recorded areas:
1. Browse Island at the far south of the mid-shelf crescent of sea mounts and banks of the Timor Sea, and Rowley Shoals at the outer margin of the continental shelf > 400 km southwest of the Scott Reef complex (habitat predicted by Udyawer et al. 2021): Historical
biodiversity surveys at Browse Island and Rowley Shoals have not detected any species of sea snake (Berry 1986; Done et al. 1994; Guinea 2009)."
"Sea snakes from the Aipysurus genus have low detectability because they sleep and shed their skin among coral on the sea floor rather than engaging in these activities at the surface, and they are not attracted to night lights on vessels (Burns & Heatwole 1998; Guinea 2013)."
"Species distribution modelling by Udyawer et al. (2020) identified that the dusky sea snake is most likely to occur on or very close to an offshore reef, and in areas with more than 50 % gravel on the sea floor, which is indicative of a hard substrate of coral/rock (Udyawer 2023 pers. comm."
https://environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/1119-conservatio...So not a lot is known about them but the models can determine how rare (or not) they are.
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