🏝️The Land Hermit Crab Workshop has come to a meaningful close right where it all begins: the ocean 🌊

🙇‍♂️Thank you for all that join us in #Okinawa & online - looking forward to continuing supporting the conservation of this amazing animal group 🐚🦀

#Conservation #HermitCrabs #MarineBiology #SciComm

⏳ It's almost time for the Terrestrial Hermit Crab Conservation Workshop 🌴

Joinus here at the University of the Ryukyu in #Okinawa or online

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you #Tambopata river, sad to leave the rain forests of #Peru, but I hope to see you soon 🙏

#NYC here I go 🤞

My flight was cancelled⛈️, no other options to return to Lima - except a flight from Chiclayo, which is 10 h night bus away. Which turned into a 23h mountain drive due to land slides. But I made new friends, hopefully made new conservationists - looking forward to explain all these tickets to finance

It's 3:30 am as we prepare to enter the cloud forest at Yerba Buena Community Conservation to monitor one of the rarest mammals on earth with Yunkawasi 🟡🐒

I'm I know how lucky I am 🙏

... all I am saying is that if we were looking for spiders we didn't need to be up this early ⏰

Fanny Cornejo is not easy to find:
- After flying to Lima 🍋 #Peru
- I had to fly to Chachapoyas 🦙
- long drive in the Andean mountains ⛰️
- along the Utcubamba River 🏞️
- into the Amazonian forest in Corosha

Well worth it to discuss conservation science with a great group of people

Very grateful to @indianapolisprize.bsky.social for supporting conservation work in #Peru
Looking forward to collaborate with National Wildlife Services (SERFOR) to benefit the country's amazing biodiversity 🦋 including tackling the Illicit Wildlife Trade in invertebrates 🕷️

Just landed in #Peru and found an old friend over lunch - #Paddington

I lived in London for over a decade so we go way back, I wonder if he will visit me in Indiana, when the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social Peru exhibit opens this summer

As I prepare to fly to #Peru, the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social celebrated its 💯th anniversary with a #TRex skeleton at the Indianapolis Airport - well worth a visit (or a selfie) - Looking forward to seeing their Peru exhibit this year!!!

Merry #crustmas from a Japanese (Ryukyu Islands) hermit crab!

Sadly, they are collected for the pet trade and at several sites they have been using plastic waste as shelter.

🌟Many great people are working to reverse these threats (get in touch if you are one of them or if you want to learn more).

Amazonian manatees are indeed very important to their ecosystem.

Sadly, when their mothers are killed the pups can't survive without human help. Those human need your help too, so they can continue to feed & release manatees back to the wild (get in touch if you want to know more)

🚨This week I am in the Amazonian Rain Forests in the Brazilian state of Pará.

🌟If you are in the area (and speak Portuguese), I will be giving a workshop and talk to colleagues about Illegal Wildlife Trade 🐝🕷️🪲🌴🔥

*Notes From The Field will be available when I am back

Notes from the field (with conservation lessons from Mexico) coming up soon.

Meanwhile, here is a picture of the Endangered Black Velvet,one of the most peaceful animals on earth.

Picture of the talk. Very grateful for the warm welcome and the beautiful gift. Hope to return soon

🚨This week I am in the cloud forests of Oaxaca, Mexico.

🌟If you are in the area (and speak Spanish), I will be giving a public talk to local students sharing what I have learned from my 20 years working in the conservation field 🦋🕷️🪲🌵🦇

*Notes From The Field will be available when I am back

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I'm an arachnologist based at the heart of Myaamionki (Myaamia nation) in the Global Center for Species Survival; supporting our community to move from assess to act, to protect all species regardless of looks or size.

I write about conservation tech or IWT but aim to write more for children