Mapping seagrass from the air 🚁
By using helicopters at low tide we can map large areas of seagrass and also get up close and personal with the meadow to record things like the species present and biomass of seagrass. Here is @mike_rasheed mapping seagrass in Thursday Island.
Take a look at this cute blue-footed booby! The name “booby” comes from the Spanish word bobo – meaning foolish – and describes these species’ clumsiness on land and willingness to approach people. Learn more: https://t.co/NVRoMoLfF5
"Wildlife Trade Entangles Nearly a Fifth of the Planet’s Vertebrate Animals: In the 1st global estimate of its kind, researchers tally an incredible 5,600 species harvested for commercial use—& predict which ones could be next," Scientific American reports https://t.co/Wv05QXm7zH