Protect Biodiversity 💚 @ReservaYLT youth council + Biologist | Macro Photography - Check out @andybetterbugs on Instagram
Boulder, Co.
Joined December 2014
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Breaking: Newly released footage shows a wild jaguar in Sonora, Mex. just 3 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
📽️Ganesh Marin, doctoral student at University of Arizona
Hey @Myrmecos 👋 what kind of ant is this? About 2-3mm long. Found on a mushroom growing off of damp wood. Near El Chical, Carchi, Ecuador. #laowa65mm2x
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I found this really beautiful blister beetle (Meloidae) (i think??) in the Rumipamba Ecological and Archeological Park today!
Everyone is surprised when I tell them that you can find beautiful bugs up here in the high andes! (9000ft up ish)
With @andy_better
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Wouldn’t it be a shame if this video went viral before Trump heads to Texas to brag about is “virtually impenetrable” border wall...
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I filmed this video one week before the @NatlParkService closed access to Organ Pipe in an attempt to hide the horrific destruction wrought by Trump’s wall. But you can’t hide devastation this.
Let’s make sure everyone sees what Trump has done to our beautiful borderlands:
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So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill!
Please read the article! – at Boulder, CO
I've spent this year watching the places I love most in the world be bulldozed for the border wall. Sometimes I feel like I'm screaming from the top of my lungs, alone in the wilderness, about this travesty.
But today, my words in @nytimes tell the story:nytimes.com/2020/11/01/opini…
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BREAKING: Indigenous O'odham activists arrested for blocking border wall construction near sacred Quitobaquito Spring at @OrganPipeNPS in Arizona.
O’odham activists are calling for immediate mobilization to stop further desecration of the sacred spring.
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NEW: on Friday night Border Patrol agents in full battle gear raided a humanitarian aid camp in the middle of a heat wave, pointing rifles at volunteers, confiscating cellphones and medical records and slashing tents apart with knives theintercept.com/2020/08/02/…
Less than a day left to back this wonderful film project on Kickstarter! It'll bring tons of awareness to the problems with mining and oil in the mega biodiverse regions of Ecuador. @MycoRoo kickstarter.com/projects/wer… – at Boulder, CO
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COMPETITION TIME!🤘For your chance to win this stunning pyrite ‘Echioceras’ Ammonite all you have to do is RETWEET this tweet and make sure you’re FOLLOWING me. I’ll announce the winner this #FossilFriday Good luck everyone! 🙂
The problem is that the youth in America aren't taught to look up to the indigenous people, who are the stewards of nature and contain knowledge that goes far beyond the reaches of present day "Americans." Instead, they treat them with complete ignorance and lack of respect. – at Boulder, CO
WATCH as young Trumpers completely surround & harass an elderly Native American at the Indigenous Peoples March. Bigotry & racism isn't hereditary. It's either purposely taught or learned by example. Who "taught" these kids, their parents or school, @CovCathColonels? @lulu_says2
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Thanks iNat! Such a beautiful fly isn't it? – at Boulder, CO
Our Observation of the Day is this Adejeania vexatrix tachinid #fly, seen in the #UnitedStates by andybetter!
More details at: inaturalist.org/observations… #FlyFriday #entomology #nature #invertefest #insects #diptera #biodiversity #naturephotography
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Mule deer, bighorn & endangered pronghorn have crossed the "border" at Organ Pipe unimpeded for millennia. But this year, for the first time, a metal mass cuts the landscape in two.
This buck was found dead yesterday--trapped by the wall--in the hottest month of the year.
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NEW: horrifying footage of #BorderWall construction blasting through the Huachuca Mountains & Coronado National Memorial.
This section of wall will sever a critical wildlife corridor for jaguars and ocelots & destroy the stunning southern terminus of the 800-mile Arizona Trail.
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If there's a mountain in the way, @CBP blows it up.
Ancient saguaro cactuses? @CBP plows them over.
A miraculous spring sacred to the O'odham, home to two endangered species? @CBP drains it for concrete.
They're crushing everything in their path to build the #BorderWall.
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.@CBPArizona violently raided a @NoMoreDeaths humanitarian aid camp with a military assault vehicle, 2 helicopters, 3 ATVs & dozens of tactical agents w/ assault rifles.
All of this to stop migrants from receiving lifesaving medical care...
news.azpm.org/p/news-article…
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Im thrilled join my friends @LouieFilms
and @MerlinSheldrake THIS WEEK for the inaugural episode of Louie’s new Wonder & Awe podcast episode! Tuesday, 8/4 12pm 3pm EST instagram.com/p/CDZQKKWhRU8/
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Bulldozing a @UNESCO biosphere reserve for the #BorderWall isn’t enough. Now @DHSgov is installing a power grid to blast this peaceful wilderness area w/ flood lights.
This will be devastating for wildlife, especially nighttime pollinators crucial to saguaro & organ pipe cactus.
