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Aug 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
WE KNOW VIRTUALLY NOTHING ABOUT THE HIGH SEAS. It's critical that a scientific and technical body, with expertise in the ecosystem of the high seas, be able to review and advise on high seas activities and potential impacts...🧵
#OneOceanOnePlanet #BBNJ #HighSeasTreaty #HighSeas
The world simply does not have enough experts. Most states do not have the breadth and depth of expertise to evaluate environmental impacts. A key part of transparency across nations is a scientific body that represents no one nation, with experts on high seas ecosystems, that...
Can provide insights into how high seas activities will impact ecosystems (and stakeholders), early in the process, so that all members can review this assessment and discuss the outcomes. If you move the scientific body to the side...
Scientific reviews may fall off the stage and become marginal to broader conversations. If this happens, given how little we know about the biology of the high seas, it could create a knowledge gap between countries & increase the chances of high-risk activities moving forward.

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Aug 22
THIS IS HUGE! I just got to the UN where the world is deciding the fate of biodiversity on the high seas. Can we protect marine life, from small jellyfish to dumbo octopus? I’ll be sharing live this week at the potential final meeting of this generation-shaping treaty🤞🤞🤞
#BBNJ
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Aug 16
SOMETHING NO ONE TALKS ABOUT: ocean plastic is a HOME. These are feather animals, called hydroids, growing on a plastic rope I picked up in the middle of the ocean. Once we throw it away, it's not ours anymore. We've gotta stop throwing it into the ocean.
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Jul 6
A THREAD 🧵OF STUNNING JELLYFISH ART by Ilona Richter, from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on Mediterranean jellyfish...
#DailyJelly Image
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Top: Jalithiara formosa
Middle: Pandes conica
Bottom: Neoturris pileata Image
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Top: Merga tergestina
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Jul 6
LOOK AT THIS NOT JELLYFISH!
If you are a soft-blob supernerds, I share with you the WTF 🤯🤯🤯 animal Thalassocalyce inconstans, with a jellyfish-shaped body, central mouth & tentacles, this comb jelly is living a jelly double life...
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Source: tos.org/oceanography/a…
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Jun 23
Dear Twitter we found this baby raccoon what do we do?? (Called the wildlife refuge but no one picked up)
@jeffvandermeer ??
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