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Clare Hawkins
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Conservation biologist in lutruwita/Tasmania 🌍🌏 Coordinates citizen science to monitor threatened species: NatureTrackers & more with the Bookend Trust & the University of Tasmania naturetrackers.au/
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@easterncoyote.bsky.social please could you add me to the conservation feed?

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Today is #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, all about raising awareness of animals & plants at risk of extinction. This month, NatureTrackers is focusing on the endangered Central North burrowing crayfish, found nowhere else in the world except a small patch of northern Tasmania...

Central North burrowing crayfish (Engaeus granulatus) on leaf litter beside its dark muddy burrow in a wet forest remnant in northern Tasmania. Not a common sight; we had temporarily captured this one under permit for schools education. Burrows of this typically 10 cm long, brown crayfish can be over a metre deep, reaching down to the water table, and that’s where they spend most of their time. Close examination of its substantial larger front claw reveals a granular surface explaining the species’ scientific name ‘granulatus’.
Current records, if all smooshed into one area, would cover less than one square kilometre.
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Discover acoustic monitoring 🎙️ & help guide wildlife conservation in Tasmania! Book into a FREE CallTrackers workshop - at 5 libraries round TAS & online - starting next Mon. Booking details for this & more here: naturetrackers.au/news/wildlif...#citsci 🧪🌏🌿

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Can you help? One day left for #WhereWhereWedgienaturetrackers.au/projects/whe...#Tasmania#volunteer#citsci 🪶🌿🌏🧪 📷 Keith Martin-Smith | Chris Grove

We're up to 83 squares booked for the requisite 2+ days of surveying - image shows a screenshot of the tally on the naturetrackers.au website
Close-up of a Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle against a pewter-coloured sky, photographed during the first of the two 2024 Where? Where? Wedgie! surveys by Keith Martin-Smith
Two people wearing warm outdoor clothing, including colourful knitted beanies, with a lake behind them, look in two different directions with their binoculars. Photographed by Chris Grove.
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‘Data provided by volunteer Reef Life Survey divers has provided the only population trend information for over 1,000 species, while tens of thousands of species lack any information at all…’ #CitSci

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forget your astrological sign. what kind of naturalist are you?

Header: The Terrestrial Naturalist Alignment System

Body: a four quadrant chart. The horizontal bar is labeled “slow - fast” and the vertical is labeled “look up - look down”
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Clare Hawkins
@clawkins.bsky.social
Conservation biologist in lutruwita/Tasmania 🌍🌏 Coordinates citizen science to monitor threatened species: NatureTrackers & more with the Bookend Trust & the University of Tasmania naturetrackers.au/
208 followers157 following87 posts