<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear All,</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A decline in biodiversity is
occurring worldwide. Society has recognized the critical importance of
pollinators. </font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The SPRING project (Strengthening Pollinator Recovery
through Indicators and monitorinG) launched by the EU Commission with an aim to
strengthen taxonomic capacity with regard to pollinating insects, supports
preparation for the implementation of an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">One of the Tasks of this project is to help image validation of pollinators in the application ObsIdentify (<a href="https://observation.org/apps/obsidentify">https://observation.org/apps/obsidentify</a>).</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We would be very happy if you would be interested to become
a validator of photos of Syrphidae. You can become a validator of certain
species, a genus, or syrphids of one region.</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">If you are interested, please contact me </span><span style="line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(</span><a href="mailto:tamaratot90@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">tamaratot90@gmail.com</span></a><span style="line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">)</span><span style="line-height:115%"> for further information.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you very much in advance.</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Tamara</font></span></p></div>