Alliance for Freshwater Life

📢 Finally published in @Ecology_Letters📢 "A global agenda for advancing freshwater #biodiversity research" led by Alain Massri & @SCJaehnig with 94 #freshwater scientists from 38 countries across the globe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… A thread about what we have to say 1/

🌊 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, @fishmigration, @idiv, @RArlinghausFish 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…

RT @JamesAl0410008: Amazonian fishes present a seemingly endless array of spectacular ecological traits. The mouth of the Silver arowana…

Very excited that a #freshwaterlife motif made the top spot in this year's @NHM_WPY competition 🐸Congratulations @ShaneGrossPhoto 🙌 /gk

I couldn’t make @ConservOptimism this week in @UniofOxford but in the spirit of #conservationoptimism see my article in @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #cosummit24

"harbingers of hope:" Apache trout officially no longer endangered. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

At least 83% of California’s native fish species are at risk of extinction. californiawaterblog.com/2024/09/01/wat…

🦞Growing global networks of online trade are creating new pathways for invasive crayfish species to spread across Europe, a new study by @oldenfish has found. freshwaterblog.net/2024/09/12/onl…

Check out this new review article by Dudgeon and Strayer "Bending the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss: what are the prospects?" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br… #OpenAccess 🔓 #freshwaterlife 🐟🐸🦆

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

Wetland conservation and restoration is an essential component of delivering the #BiodiversityPlan vision of a world living in harmony with nature where by 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used. ➡️ ramsar.org/sites/default/…

Con el CSS @shedd_aquarium y @IUCNssc 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 @SciTotEnv led by @NIVAforskning with @LeibnizIGB 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…

Earth's freshwater megafauna is quietly disappearing .. and that's a big problem. @RachelNuwer on the catastrophic decline of the world's largest freshwater fishes. startribune.com/article/567859…

"Experts stunned by discovery in rainforest 15 years after reintroduction of beavers: '[They] may have created the right habitat'" 🦫 #freshwaterlife /gk thecooldown.com/outdoors/beave…

Happy #WorldOtterDay #freshwaterlife /gk

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