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The Green Desk: Getting Down With Dung Beetles: 10th September, 2024

The Green Desk: Getting Down With Dung Beetles: 10th September, 2024

The Green Desk: Getting Down With Dung Beetles: 10th September, 2024 The Green Desk: Getting Down With Dung Beetles: 10th September, 2024, 14.02 MB
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

This week on The Green Desk things get shitty — New Zealand has a poo problem: An estimated 100 million tonnes of cow and sheep manure fall onto New Zealand pastures each year, causing an environmental and economic stink. 


Reporter Jack Marshall went to see a man about a dung beetle. Dung Beetle Innovations’s Dr. Shaun Forgie is a specialist in dung beetle reproduction, ecology and evolution. And if he has his way, every farm in New Zealand will have these bugs following around their animals.