NatureYetu
@NatureYetu
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Mauritian NGO putting African narratives at the forefront to increase awareness and encourage best practices for nature conservation and environmental justice
Mauritius; WIO; Africa
Joined November 2019
RT @LFabiolaMonty: 📢Job opportunity with Ferney Ltd for the position of Conservation Project Manager. More info ⬇️ With @NatureYetu we loo…
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#fielddiaries Leaves in #nature can have a weird look due to galls. They are bumps on the leave surface caused by insects/ other organisms. Many of these insects are species specific. Here are typical galls found on leaves of the #Mauritian black ebony ⬇️ 📸@clbaider
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#fielddiaries with @Tropical_IBEC Checkout @AshmiBiologist busy placing audiomoths (a sound recording device used to monitor wildlife) to assess the landscape use of #microbats in #Mauritius
#WomenInSTEM #biodiversity #islandbiodiversity #ConservationBiology 📸 @clbaider
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@Malik_OEDIN @Tropical_IBEC @geetikabhanda @AshmiBiologist Do you have an idea of why there is no litchi? Climatic factors?
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RT @Tropical_IBEC: One more hectare surveyed! The one with high number of plants and rough terrain. Project about carbon sequestration of #…
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#fielddiaries Ecosystem restoration: ✅is not about tree plantation ✅includes removal of invasive plants ✅is not focused on 1 species but benefit different groups of plants & animals & the interactions between them 📸@clbaider & @LFabiolaMonty
#ConservationOptimism
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RT @NatureYetu: With our last post for #BatWeek, We bring the spotlight to another great young scientist 🧵 1/2 @geetikabhanda is looking a…
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We can all agree that there's hope for the Mauritian flying fox as she brings more light on those win-win solutions for fruit growers & bats. 🦇🌳🥭 🧵 2/2 Keep up with Geetika's research & future findings here ⬇️
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Ashmi is also part of the @globalsouthbats since 2020 following the network's first course in Kenya 🧵 3/3 Find out more from Ashmi herself ⬇️
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His latest paper highlights that the species prefers to forage in lower-elevation forests & restoring such forests would increase fruit availability potentially reducing the need to forage on commercial fruits. 🧵(3/3) #ConservationOptimism
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RT @NatureYetu: It's #BatWeek! 🦇 So let's re-discover and celebrate the native & endemic bats that occupy the Mascarene islands as well as…
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Last but not least, meet the Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger) also known as the Mauritius fruit bat. It used to occur on Rodrigues and was also locally extinct in Reunion where a few individual have been observed. It's listed as Endangered. 6/n 📸 Jacques De Speville
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