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Mapping plant life to help save species at risk for our future
Kew Gardens
Joined November 2009
Read the paper? now watch the video: Extreme botany: Daring paramotorists soar across Peru desert to collect threatened plants | Kew
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Landscapes at a crossroads: using remote sensing to help nature recovery @KewScience
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PhD student Guilherme Castro is using high-resolution remote sensing technology to investigate how different land management practices can help to restore our landscapes.
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Great to see that our paper in @plantspplplanet making the front cover. One of the more unusual images to make the front cover of a scientific journal https://t.co/jLhJ7fHHo0
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Beyond 4 × 4: Paramotoring a novel approach to accelerate plant exploration in challenging environments Justin Moat, et al. 👇 📖 https://t.co/yeUruJkHv1 ⏯ https://t.co/BmB4ChcaWO
#LatestIssue @kewscience
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A great day in Portugal presenting some of the research work I have been involved with over the last years. We debated the different views about the #NatureRestorationLaw and ways to implement it 🌱 @KewScience @London_NERC_DTP @KewGIS @RHULBioSci
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🌿Thrilled to see @KewScience advancing plant research in Peru 🇵🇪 using paramotoring to explore some of the country’s most remote and biodiverse regions! Discover more in their latest publication📰 and a fascinating documentary🎥 highlighting this groundbreaking work in Peru.
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"Extreme Botany" Sees Paramotorists Take To The Skies To Protect Fragile Peruvian Ecosystem. @IFLScience
https://t.co/ICYkvHJJeh
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An unlikely pairing of botanists and paramotorists could be a way to map fragile desert plant species and reduce environmental impact at the same time.
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This work was in collaboration with @kewgis
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https://t.co/uCrq5Bgczp With funding from @insidenatgeo
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We often use X to announce latest papers etc, this can be a “little” dry for many, but this one may interest you more. Published in @plantspplplanet
https://t.co/ArHR6YlpOT “Beyond 4 × 4: Paramotoring a novel approach to accelerate plant exploration in challenging environments”
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Addressing the burning environmental crisis, we explore how the ‘extreme sport’ of paramotoring can enhance and accelerate scientific exploration with minimal environmental impact compared to...
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More news tomorrow on our Peru work on fog oasis. @KewScience Watch this space. #botanyiscool #suspence
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More news tomorrow on our Peru work on fog oasis. @KewScience Watch this space. #botanyiscool #suspence
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Watch our Nature Unlocked team @wakehurst_kew sharing progress on our work on carbon sequestration, seed banking and pollinators on @BBCCountryfile starring our very own @JanineGriffLee and @KewGIS among other @kewscience staff.
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Vick Hope joins the team to pick the images that will grace the 2025 Countryfile calendar.
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Jenny Williams, a senior spatial analyst at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, is leveraging drone technology to combat deforestation ... - #drone #drones #DroneTechnology #Drones #Legal #LiDAR #Wildlife
https://t.co/SCSDyy7q8r
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Jenny Williams, a senior spatial analyst at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, is leveraging drone technology to combat deforestation in Madagascar. This
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🌳🚁 New Paper! Ultra-high-resolution 3D #UAV imagery reveals alarming illegal #deforestation in #Madagascar's forest. Immediate response by local patrols in near-real-time. #Conservation #Carbon #Drone #ClimateAction @KewScience @jenjwilliams @TeamKMCC
https://t.co/xji1JXHiRj
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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery highlights the extent of illegal deforestation in protected areas for the biodiverse humid forest of central Madagascar. The ultra-high-resolution (<10-cm...< /div>
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How much #carbon do grasslands hold? 🌼 #NatureReturns is a partnership that gathers evidence to improve understanding of nature-based solutions to help tackle #ClimateChange. 🎥 Watch to learn more about our work with @gloswildlife, @KewScience and @wakehurst_kew.
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Peru government puts the Lomas Amara y Ullujaya a 6450Ha endemic fog oasis under protection. A result of 15 years of study and research by @KewScience & particularly #OllieWhaley & @KewGIS w/ #HuarangoNature ( https://t.co/JEsx8ZOHIH)
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So happy to see Lomas y Tilandsiales de Amara – Ullujalla protected. It's been years of work to get to this stage. https://t.co/jkZ8Mw8gox
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We celebrate as science leads to new protections for a wet ecosystem found in one of the driest places on Earth.
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So happy to see Lomas y Tilandsiales de Amara – Ullujalla protected. It's been years of work to get to this stage. https://t.co/jkZ8Mw8gox
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We celebrate as science leads to new protections for a wet ecosystem found in one of the driest places on Earth.
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We are looking for a programme office for #natureunlocked @wakehurst_kew to help us "unlock" this exciting programme across the landscape, from health to bees, to tree to soil to water.
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Come join us @wakehurst_kew! #NatureUnlocked is recruiting for a Programme Officer to help us manage all the exciting projects we have going on, from carbon 🌳 to bees 🐝 to nature-connectedness 😀 to hydrology 💦 More info:
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