Spotlight: Two decades of monitoring in Mauritania
26 September 2024
by Deborah Buehler originally published in Wader Study 131(2) Imagine a place where the wind feels like a hair dryer – hot and dry. A place where faces are covered to protect against sand and sun. Now imagine a coastline, the sea brilliant blue and separated from salt flats and desert by a low line of dunes. And at the interface of land and sea, shallows and intertidal flats covered with birds. This is Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania. Banc d’Arguin is one link in a chain of important habitats
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