William Darwall

Hello All, after 20 years with IUCN leading our FW species work I am now moving on to manage a new project closer to home in Cornwall: tamaralandscapepartnership.org.uk Keep flying the FW flag - it's been 20 great years working with you all! Come a visit me in Cornwall - great surf!

"Environmental group WWF Japan believes the true scale of the problem is even larger, estimating between 40 to 60 percent of eels raised in Japan come from illegal sources."" japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/1…

@AndyRainforest @JChVie Amazing - wonderful to see!

At last a female lynx with a young showed up on my property in the French Jura mountains. A big emotion! I hope hunters will let them in peace. They are not supposed to hunt there and lynx are protected but unfortunately they do and poaching is a real threat!

At least they had an asteroid, what’s our excuse? 🦖💥 #TheTimeIsNow #ClimateAction ➡️ ow.ly/Lf5850GGPg0

@Quiksilver Hello, need to return a faulty watch recently purchased (minute hand fell off). No response from your online customer services or through direct email - for 2-3 weeks now. No return address or label included in the original packaging. Please advise for UK returns☹️☹️

Environmental campaigners taking direct action are dismissed as mad and bad by people who have not seen what they have seen: the gathering collapse of our life support systems. Once you understand the enormity of what we face, you'll see them as the heroes they are.

Urgent: Up to a million species are facing extinction -- but governments are voting on a bold new plan to save nature this week! Let's make sure it passes, join the urgent call now! fb.avaaz.org/campaign/en/pr…

Water crowfoot is like the mangroves fringing tropical seas: it's the crucial habitat in which fish and other creatures shelter and breed. Lose the crowfoot, and you lose much of the ecosystem. The rate of loss is breathtaking, terrifying, heartbreaking.

Scientists turn to eDNA to curtail the freshwater extinction crisis news.mongabay.com/2021/07/scient… via @Mongabay

Just a little reminder that hydropower is not a green energy alternative to fossil fuels ⁦@arochaint⁩ ⁦@ARochaUK⁩ ⁦@SynchEarth⁩ ⁦@intlrivers⁩ ⁦@IUCN_Water⁩ ⁦@IUCN⁩ ⁦@IUCNRedList⁩ ⁦@IUCNssc⁩ ⁦@Shoal_Org⁩ news.mongabay.com/2021/07/our-wo…

@NatureMetrics and @IUCN raising funds to map the world’s freshwater biodiversity using #eDNA - we need data to: 🐟 set global goals for nature 🐞stimulate investment 🦋 manage business risks and impacts

With Rivers and FW biodiversity so overlooked by global pledges, campaigns and messaging - so great to see this ‘Gamechanging’ £10m environmental DNA project to map life in world’s rivers theguardian.com/environment/20… @WWFLeadWater @kathyahughes @Shoal_Org @AFL_org @IUCN_Water @IPBES

This could be a gamechanger: finally a way to rapidly get information on where FW species occur across the globe using eDNA which works amazingly well for FW fish in particular theguardian.com/environment/20…

What have the Duckbilled buntingi, Syr Darya shovelnose sturgeon & Spinach pipefish in common? They're all #LostFishes & among the Top10 most wanted fishes in @Shoal_Org's Search for the Lost Fishes. Find out how you can help to find them: shoalconservation.org/search-for-los…

@JChVie @GeorgeMonbiot The message here applies to our highly threatened FW fish which also need to be treated as wildlife rather than as "replacable" agricultural products.

Excellent article by @GeorgeMonbiot. I agree 100% and wrote similar things years ago, with much less talent! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Diverse, freshwater fish are critical for societies, economies and ecosystems - but they are undervalued and under threat. This report from organizations including @WWF and @Global_Wildlife explains why we must act now to save them: wwf.panda.org/discover/our_f…

See this report out today highlighting the terrible state of the worlds 18,000+ freshwater fish, one third of which are now threatened with many more in decline. Let's use this to generate some action now - before it's too late. We know what to do...but need support to do it.

Shouldn’t this read “Endangered Pearl Mussel at risk from development along the River Blackwater” ?irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…