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How has #COVID19 impacted conservation? In honor of #WildlifeConservationDay we'll be hearing from Gladys Kalema-Zukosoka (@DoctorGladys) and Ricardo Moreno of @yaguarapanama who are both studying the pandemic's effects on wildlife. THREAD 
QUESTION 1: What do you do and where in the world are you? 🌎
@DoctorGladys: I am the Founder and CEO of @CTPHuganda and @GCCoffee1, based in Uganda. @CTPHuganda is a not-for-profit NGO which promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people, gorillas and other wildlife to coexist through improving their health and community livelihoods
For International #WorldHeritageDay, a thread about the threat of climate change to these incredible places. Starting off at the Heart of Neolithic #Orkney World Heritage site in #Scotland at one of the world's oldest stone circles, #StonesOfStenness.
Skara Brae at the edge of Skaill Bay on Mainland, Orkney is, one of the best preserved Stone Age villages in Europe but is increasingly under threat from coastal erosion and worsening storms, & the Ring of Brodgar is vulnerable to extreme rainfall.
You can read the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) assessment recently carried out for the #Orkney sites by @UCSUSA, @jcu, @UHIArchaeology, @HistEnvScot, @ICOMOS & @OrkneyCouncil, & @ICOMOS here: historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-r… #CVIheritage
