Cross-border challenge, regional response: cooperation to reduce the impacts of illegal mining and strengthen environmental governance, transparency and accountability, through a human rights-based approach. #REDESCA #GuianaShield #HumanRights

Nigeria and NW SoAmerica also has #RareEarthMinerals Trump covets
#OrinocoRiverbasin, eastern Colombia and most of Venezuela, n Brazil has significant deposits of various critical minerals and rare earth elements in the #GuianaShield
Bolivia has huge deposits too.

LifeCLEF 2020 Plant ID Challenge Leverages AI and Herbarium Data

LifeCLEF 2020's PlantCLEF challenge focused on about 1,000 Guiana Shield species, training on hundred thousand herbarium sheet images and thousand field photos, then testing on images. getnews.me/lifeclef-2020-plant-id-c... #lifclef2020 #guianashield

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑝𝑦𝑔𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑗𝑖, A New Species of 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑝𝑦𝑔𝑢𝑠 (#Gymnotiformes: #Sternopygidae) from the Atlantic Coast of the #GuianaShield. #Sternopygus #KnifeFish
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