
Alliance for Freshwater Life
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Earth's freshwater megafauna is quietly disappearing .. and that's a big problem. Rachel Nuwer on the catastrophic decline of the world's largest freshwater fishes. startribune.com/article/567859…




Con el CSS Shedd Aquarium y IUCN Species Survival Commission estamos realizando el "Mapeo de esfuerzos en conservación de biodiversidad y ecosistemas de agua dulce en Centroamérica", para desarrollar las bases para una Alianza Mesoamericana de Conservación de Especies y Ecosistemas de Agua Dulce.


When macrophytes grow in large numbers, they are often removed. Study in Science of the Total Environment led by NIVA with IGB Berlin (now on Bluesky) showed for 6 freshwater systems in 5 countries that the "do nothing" option should be considered when dealing with aquatic plants 👉igb-berlin.de/en/news/managi…



🌍 Conservation success in Madagascar! The Bemanevika Wetland Complex has helped save the once-thought-extinct Madagascar Pochard.🦆 Community-led efforts and The Peregrine Fund have shown that hope and perseverance can restore wetland ecosystems. ramsar.org/news/conservat…


I couldn’t make ConservationOptimism this week in University of Oxford but in the spirit of #conservationoptimism see my article in The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #cosummit24


Very excited that a #freshwaterlife motif made the top spot in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 🐸Congratulations Shane Gross 🙌 /gk

🌊 The new episode of the @euMERLINproject podcast explores why its vital to work with communities in freshwater restoration 🎙️ It features stories from the Tzipori basin in Israel, World Fish Migration Day, iDiv Biodiversity Research, Robert Arlinghaus (moved to Blue Sky) and ECOLISE 📻 Tune in here! freshwaterblog.net/2024/10/29/mer…

Scientists have definitive proof that ghosts exist!👻 But this is no phantom, and no horror story: the Critically Endangered Giant Salmon Carp – the Mekong Ghost – has been recorded for the first time since 2005 signalling fresh hope for the Mekong region shoalconservation.org/mekong-ghost-r…