Botswana joins Nature and Plastic!
Welcome to Botswana, the first landlocked country to join Nature and Plastic, and the second African nation to participate. Thank you to @botswanabugs for enthusiastically setting up the Terrestrial project for his country: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bw-terrestrial-nature-and-plastic
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Thanks @jacqui-nz. I dont know if there is one yet but I think there is a need for a global and separate country projects for Pollution and Nature, which includes glass bottles ( and we have a lot of discarded beer bottles in Botswana !), cardboard, paper, metal cans,oil, batteries, wire etc and their effects on Nature. Every country should have projects like these to highlight pollution's influence on Nature.
Botswanabugs
Yes, I agree, and I think essentially that's what @biohexx1 's global project Pollution is all about with breaking down to individual countries like Nature and Plastic. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pollution
We chose to go with separate countries under one umbrella project, so that the different admins and managers of the projects could take the lead for their country to promote the projects and post relevant journal entries.
Welcome Botswana!
As each country joins it is always fascinating for me to see different animals from those I see at home (NZ) that are affected by plastic and it highlights more and more that the affects of plastic are global. Having our first land locked country join will give me more ideas on where to look for terrestrial obs - like in plastic barrels and under the lips - a place I have not looked at yet.
Zimbabwe and Madagascar area another two countries that have observations with plastic in the nests so maybe one day there will be someone from those places who will join us.
Thank you for your project :)
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