The Green Planet is home to more than 3,000 animals and plants. “I go to the gym, it energises me, and get back to my apartment at 7.15am, have breakfast, feed the cat, then head to work about 15 minutes away.” 8.30am: Plotting out the day “There’s something about these animals that are better, more efficient at perhaps digesting their food and growing faster,” Conington says.“I’m very much a morning person,” says Mr Rohrkaste, who joined The Green Planet five years ago following stints at Florida’s Busch Gardens and an aquarium. The carbon-cutting concept came from New Zealand where researchers selected and bred the world’s first low methane-emitting sheep, slashing harmful emissions by 16 percent. Scientists estimate there are about 1.2 billion sheep around the world and that they’re releasing nearly 8 million tons of methane into the atmosphere every year. “The animals go into a specific location for about 50 minutes and there’s a gas analyzer on the top which monitors the amount of the methane,” says Conington. Professor Joanne Conington and her team hauled in a special methane machine to find out just how gassy each sheep is. “What we’re looking for is for animals that tend to be low methane emitters,” says Professor Joanne Conington, a livestock scientist at Scotland’s Rural College. “You’re lookin’ for the needle in a haystack, that single little black sheep amongst all the white ones,” says Hodgkins.īritish scientists are helping with the hunt in a pioneering project in Hertfordshire, England. They’re sending sheep into high-tech methane machines to measure their emissions in the latest effort to cut greenhouse gases on farms.įarmer Rob Hodgkins hopes to lead his flock to a greener pasture by rounding up sheep that produce less methane. ( KSEE/KGPE) - British scientists want to get ahead of the herd in the race to save the planet.
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