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…

Some media coverage of our paper validating the new IUCN #GreenStatusOfSpecies. Great to see in The Guardian! theguardian.com/environment/20…

Land protection ≠ Freshwater protection. Call to Action to explicitly include Inland waters in post-2020 #biodiversity Framework & better metrics for measuring freshwater protection UN Environment Programme UNEP-WCMC National Geographic IUCN Water and Land Management Team IUCN TNC Policy

DYK Over 40% of global fish production depends on rivers? Including 20% of wild capture fisheries & 68% of all aquaculture fish. Find out more in WWF’s new Rivers of Food rivers-of-food.panda.org/#intro with Pictet Group WWF Water 💧🐟

The Twitter-verse has spoken. And the winner is... Don't want to spoil the surprise but #fish 🐠🐟🐡 lovers will be happy Katie O'Reilly KaiTheFishGuy World Fish Migration Day Jonathan Bolland WorldFish Prosanta Chakrabarty Robert Arlinghaus (moved to Blue Sky) Matt Ford @DrFishSG American Fisheries Society Dr. Kassandra Ford

See our new paper on the #freshwater #fish diversity of West Kabylia, Algeria, here: biodiversityjournal.com/pdf/12(4)_957-…

Join me for a Youtube Live Q&A on Wildlife Photography all the questions you've ever wanted to know ask for this! What we earn, think about other wildlife togs, how it effects social lives etc Ask on the the night or send in beforehand. 8th March 7pm youtu.be/LU02wlbq-ts

BREAKING: Today the Albanian government has taken a historic step - giving the Vjosa ‘National Park’ status. It will protect Europe’s last wild river. A truly amazing decision which will protect biodiversity and the environment for generations to come.

Ever wondered how species are assessed and classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered for the IUCN Red List? Well, assessors such as Catherine Sayer go through a thorough process. We caught up with Catherine to learn more 👇👇 shoalconservation.org/assessing-exti… #EndangeredSpecies

Extinction :( One of the world's largest freshwater fish the Chinese paddlefish has just been declared officially extinct - declined from abundance to #extinction over a few decades due #overfishing & #dams - read more about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_p… #fish #hydropower 🐟🐟

Finally the world's largest cave fish gets a name! Presenting Neolissochilus pnar #mahseer Just out in Vertebrate Zoology Senckenberg Research vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/101011/ @SJC_fishy @MahseerTrust WWF Water 💧🐟 FW Conservation Kathy Hughes SHOAL Alliance for Freshwater Life Julie Claussen

The National Red List for the Fishes of Uganda will be launched next week on 21st March. Below are some of the threatened species in the list. GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif JRS Biodiversity Foundation NARO Uganda MAAIF 🇺🇬

The scientific report about the Neretva Science Week 2022 is out. More than 1,000 species discovered, incl. several new to science. journals.uni-lj.si/NaturaSlovenia…

BREAKING: Freshwater species populations have crashed by 85% on average since 1970 - finds new WWF & ZSL Conservation report! We must scale up investment NOW in protecting and restoring our rivers, lakes and wetlands - for nature & people livingplanet.panda.org

🚨 OUT NOW: European Red List of Freshwater Fishes (2026) After 5+ years of work, I’m proud to share this major new report, which I had the honour of leading. 👉 Download: op.europa.eu/en/publication… #Biodiversity #Freshwater #Conservation #EU

Many thanks to IUCN for this excellent video highlighting the European Red List of Freshwater Fishes. Great to see the findings being shared more widely. 👉Download the full report here: tinyurl.com/443yr9t5