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Andy Better

@andy_better

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
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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!
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@realDonaldTrump5 Nov 2020
STOP THE COUNT!
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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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Ryan Devereaux@rdevro2 Aug 2020
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/…
Border Patrol Launches Militarized Raid of Borderlands Humanitarian Aid Camp

Border Patrol Launches Militarized Raid of Borderlands Humanitarian Aid Camp

The raid came amid a heat wave and just days after No More Deaths released documents showing how it was targeted by Border Patrol in the first place.

theintercept.com
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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! 🙂
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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.
Image from Laiken Jordahl (@LaikenJordahl)
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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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Image from Laiken Jordahl (@LaikenJordahl)
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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…
Multiple arrests in Border Patrol raid on migrant aid camp, second this week

Multiple arrests in Border Patrol raid on migrant aid camp, second this week

Agency entered a medical aid camp run by the humanitarian group No More Deaths on Friday, executing a federal warrant.

azpm.org
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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.
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Phil@myrmecoPhil14 Jul 2020
(3/3) What's also special is that for the first time, we used the DISC3D scanner to obtain a photogrammetric 3D scan for a species description, in cooperation with @DinardaE Check out this rendered video of the queen 3D model!
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My books explore the possibility of a lost advanced civilization of the Ice Age. Myths say the gods destroyed it because it became greedy, arrogant conceited & cruel. The “advanced”, technological nations of the 21st century tick all the boxes for the next lost civilization.
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PSA:💜 🦋All bugs are good bugs🦋 🦂Some bugs get scared 🕷🕸Some like your interior design skills 🦟Others don't realize that you're not their target market 🐞Many are far from home and need to make it work in a new place 🦗🐛Some are hungry too 🐜🐝Some bugs have family to feed – at San Vicente, Ecuador
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Bella Lack@BellaLack8 Jul 2020
“We look to the stars, contemplating the unlikely forms of life elsewhere, yet the biodiversity on Earth is beyond the realms of imagination”. @gunsnrosesgirl3 nitter.gq/gunsnrosesgirl3/status…
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BBC News - How one teaspoon of Amazon soil teems with fungal life bbc.com/news/science-environ…

How one teaspoon of Amazon soil teems with fungal life

Scientists discover hundreds of different fungi in Amazonian soil, thought to play a vital role in nature.

bbc.com
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Bella Lack@BellaLack16 Jun 2020
PART 2) And a HUGE thank you to @andy_better for the translation.
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.@ThomasShahan10 Jun 2020
Getting a few more ticks in the woods today was worth it - found a new salticid (for me!) - a female Synemosyna sp ant-mimicking jumping spider. Look at that weird constricted cephalothorax!
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Image from . (@ThomasShahan)
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