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Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus
The Marsh deer are South America’s largest deer species, uniquely adapted to wetland life with their web-like hooves and preference for aquatic plants. They are prey animals for jaguars and p…Palm Oil Detectives
#Wetlands 🫧🌊 control floods, replenish groundwater, stabilise shorelands, purify water. In #Nigeria 🇳🇬 they're home to birds 🦆🪿🦉🦜#crocodiles snakes 🐍 #alligators 🐊 and #hippos 🦛 Protect them with your wallet #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
Nigeria’s nature reserves need more help to protect biodiversity
Apart from conserving species, #wetlands help to control floods, replenish groundwater, stabilise shorelines, retain nutrients and purify water. The park will join Nigeria’s protected area of 445 f…Palm Oil Detectives
Nigeria’s nature reserves need more help to protect biodiversity
Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Environment recently nominated Finima Nature Park in River State as a Ramsar site: a wetland of international importance. Omo Forest, a home for elephants, in Ijebu Ea…Palm Oil Detectives
Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus
The Marsh deer are South America’s largest deer species, uniquely adapted to wetland life with their web-like hooves and preference for aquatic plants. They are prey animals for jaguars and p…Palm Oil Detectives
Marsh Deer live most of their lives in #wetlands of #Argentina #Peru #Bolivia #Brazil #Paraguay eating wetland plants. They are #vulnerable from #palmoil #agriculture and #mining. Fight for them and #Boycott4Wildlife
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Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus
The Marsh deer are South America’s largest deer species, uniquely adapted to wetland life with their web-like hooves and preference for aquatic plants. They are prey animals for jaguars and p…Palm Oil Detectives
I may yet post some reflections on my newsletter Movable Worlds in the near future—but for now, you can follow https://instagram.com/emilydingwrites to see the photo journal I am sharing of my reporting trip.
Start here: https://instagram.com/p/CrNlh91pa2t
These two photos were taken at my first stop: the village of Mumiang.
#Kinabatangan #Sabah #Malaysia #Borneo #wetlands #mangroves
In Sandakan: leaving from the jetty next to the pungently aromatic 😆 central fish market to make our way to the Lower Kinabatangan-Segama Wetlands (LKSW) in east coast Sabah. Made a reporting trip late last year for a story for @btlmsia, a Malaysian newsl
21 likes, 0 comments - Emily Ding (@emilydingwrites) on Instagram: "In Sandakan: leaving from the jetty next to the pungently aromatic 😆 central fish market to ma..."Emily Ding (Instagram)
I'm drawn to places I don’t know much about and on which there isn't too much online. #Sabah has #Malaysia’s largest expanse of #mangroves and the Lower #Kinabatangan-Segama #Wetlands forms the largest contiguous tract in the southern Sulu Sea, but I had never heard of it before. I was only familiar with the Kinabatangan tourists visit for wildlife-spotting river cruises. So my curiosity started from a very basic place: What does this place look like? How do the people there live?