Also known as the Turtle Lady
Abu Dhabi
Joined December 2017
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Arabella Willing retweeted
I extend my sincere condolences to the family of Peter Hellyer, who served the UAE with devotion for many years and made a lasting impact in the fields of archaeology, the environment and the media. Peter was a model of dedication & generosity, and we pray that he rests in peace.
Arabella Willing retweeted
🌊 Plastic devastates marine ecosystems!
Over 14M tons of plastic end up in oceans annually, harming marine life and causing $13B in damage. It's time to act!
Let's #BeatPlasticPollution and protect our oceans!
Via @GENetwork
👇genevaenvironmentnetwork.org…
I've just discovered this gorgeous initiative
wepresent.wetransfer.com/ser…
Arabella Willing retweeted
After many years of development, the free, self-paced Learning through Citizen Science course we developed with @NatGeoEducation and many others is live!
Read more about it and learn how to enroll here:
blog.education.nationalgeogr…
Arabella Willing retweeted
What would life be like if our eyes were as powerful as microscopes?
Our familiarity with everyday objects — such as this credit card — is rooted in the scale at which we perceive them. By magnifying objects 100x, a strange new world appears. A thread.
Arabella Willing retweeted
Do you struggle with being focused and present?
Here's a 2-minute exercise you can practice in real-time.
All you need to do is slow down and read the thread below.
But make sure you pause 3-5 seconds between each sentence (very important).
Let's see what happens . . .
Arabella Willing retweeted
Tourism provides employment to millions & allows many of us to appreciate the natural world. As we #BuildBackBetter post #COVID19, we have a unique opportunity to build an inclusive and sustainable future for the tourism sector #ForPeopleForPlanet #WTD20 #GlobalGoals
Arabella Willing retweeted
How strongly you feel about an issue is not itself a measure of the strength of your argument.
Arabella Willing retweeted
Our #LPR2020 is 315 pages long, made up of 70,422 words. So, we’ve also made a bitesize video!
Watch it here and help spread the word of what we need to do to #StandUpForNature 👉 fal.cn/3aeww
Arabella Willing retweeted
"My relationship with nature began at an early age as I grew up watching my father who, to me, was a naturalist."
More from Dr Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, the secretary-general of @EADTweets thenational.ae/opinion/comme…
I didn't think I could love tea more, but I've just discovered that we can use teabags to study carbon capture. The "Tea Bag Index" is a novel approach to collect uniform decomposition data across ecosystems. So cool! teacomposition.org
Hurray! Abu Dhabi's dugong population is being saved by the fishing net ban thenational.ae/uae/environme… via @TheNationalUAE
Arabella Willing retweeted
Stay home people! Fishes are doing it, you should do it! #FlattenTheCurve #StayAtHome #YoMeQuedoEnCasa
Yey!! Proud to have played a part in this. Here’s to a future with #noplasticinnature
Abu Dhabi has announced an initiative to gradually phase out disposable plastics bit.ly/336l8uP
Great news - Free tap water will be available all across Dubai in a few months. See ya single-use.
gulfnews.com/uae/environment…
72% of the young people we surveyed want to spend more time outdoors in nature. 👍👍 emiratesnaturewwf.ae/en/pres…