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#RaptorResearch #AnimalBehaviour & #Conservation #Ecology • #Archery Coach 🏹• #JEDI advocate ⚖️ • #Ecuatoriano 🇪🇨 in 🌎🌍🌏 •Tweets mine • @MeganWestervel💍
Mar 5, 2021 12 tweets 14 min read
#InPlainSight!
#APlenaVista! [Español en el 🧵]

Interactive #LightPollution Map (lightpollutionmap.info) allows us to track the amount of light every year captured by satellites.

Maps are created using average monthly light emissions.

2 shocking finds in #Ecuador

1/ [Eng] World map showing the light... #OverFishing is a highly debated topic.
What happens in #OpenWaters is difficult to monitor.
Yet, here you clearly see the #LightPollution (likely many⛴️) JUST outside the #TerritorialWaters of #Ecuador and #Peru in 2019

Just a reminder: THESE ARE MONTHLY AVERAGES!

2/ [Eng] Picture showing the light p...