Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We invited women scientists from around the world to share thoughts on their field and what drives them to push through challenging circumstances. #WomenInScience wwf.to/3oIb4E1

We had some technical issues. Sorry to leave you hanging! Today, we’ll continue to feature #AskAScientist responses from WWF’s #WomenInScience and our conservation partners.

Q3 is for Sofía Green, whale shark researcher Galapagos Conservation Trust: With all the issues & options available in conservation, what is your best advice on narrowing it down & actually selecting a cause or organization to get involved with? #WomenInScience #AskAScientist

🚨 New Global Fishing Watch map update 🚨 It is hard to protect what has not been mapped and measured. We have just launched a new technique for matching night lights to likely fishing events revealing large, previously unmonitored fleets. Read more: globalfishingwatch.org/data/ais-viirs…

New WWF Deutschland study reveals the leading cause of EU dumping of fish is the type of fishing gear, not vessel size. 92% of recorded discards overboard come from bottom trawl fisheries, which scrape the seafloor and swallow everything in their path. wwf.eu/?uNewsID=63939…

"The Environment Is in Us,not Outside of Us.The Trees Are Our Lungs,The Rivers are our Bloodstream.We Are All Interconnected, and what you do to the Environment, ultimately you do to yourself " #ClimateCrisis #FridaysForFuture #SaveSoil #conservation #ClimateEmergency

🌍Wildlife Tracker is now implemented thanks to Sofía Green and the #GalapagosWhaleSharkProject Check our demos with "Sky" a juvenile whale shark and its movements overlaid with SST and Chl-a: 🐳Here: bit.ly/3OFIUVA With Copernicus Marine Movebank #Galapagos

Whale sharks are the world’s largest fish 🦈 However, their populations are falling. 📸 © Sofia Green

Using animal tagging data and vessel position data from Global Fishing Watch and exactEarth, researchers from MBA - Marine Biological Association and the University of Southampton found more than 90% of whale shark movements overlap with shipping lanes. 📸 © Mark Erdmann

Read about their groundbreaking findings in a new paper here: pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

🌍Wildlife Tracker supports the real-time visualization of #GalapagosWhaleSharkProject with ocean monitoring data. Thank you Sofía Green for being part of this project. ⬇️Get to know how it works with our promo video! 👀Here: bit.ly/3wqVz7Z #whaleshark #galapagos

Check out the video that should have guided the entire COP27 climate summit. It was presented in Sharm El-Sheikh at the Nature+ Pavillion reaching 30M+ but clearly not many of the negotiators vimeo.com/771227894/ea02…

#SOSPuntaCarola #Galapagos ¡Rechazamos la construcción de un hotel en la Playa de Punta Carola! Punta Carola es un area de alta biodiversidad, hogar de especies endémicas y nativas de Galápagos que se verían altamente impactadas por el proyecto hotelero de HOGALAPAGOS S.A.

Sofía Green Punta Carola también es una playa de recreación de la comunidad de Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. Galapagos no es un destino para grandes hoteles de cadenas hoteleras. Galapagos tiene un interés especial por ser único en el planeta como laboratorio de Evolución y tener especias únicas

(1/5) ¡ALERTA EN GALÁPAGOS! Playa Carola – Galápagos necesita nuestra ayuda. No seamos cómplices de su destrucción. #SOSPlayaCarola #SOSGalápagos #Galápagos

(2/5) Le decimos un NO rotundo a las construcciones invasoras en la Playa Carola – Galápagos. ¡Estamos en alerta! #SOSPlayaCarola #SOSGalápagos #Galápagos

(3/5) La Empresa HOGALAPAGOS S.A no es bienvenida en San Cristóbal al ser una construcción invasora que destruirá la Playa Carola y matará a nuestras especies. No cometerán este terrible delito ante nuestros ojos. #SOSPlayaCarola #SOSGalápagos #Galápagos

(5/5) Playa Carola – Galápagos es un regalo de nuestros padres y madres y nuestra herencia para nuestrxs hijxs. NO ESTÁ A LA VENTA. #SOSPlayaCarola #SOSGalápagos #Galápagos

2 ejemplares del pez más grande del 🌎cayeron en artes de pesca, todo indica que fue incidental, pero que por salvar la pesca no los soltaron de inmediato. Existen protocolos de liberación de #TiburonBallena, pero son poco conocidos por los pescadores. 📺 Teleamazonas 👇

ENCONTRADOS LOS 2 OCUPANTES DE LA AVIONETA PERDIDA EN GALÁPAGOS El Consejo de Gobierno de Galápagos informó que se localizó en buenas condiciones a los dos ocupantes del avión ultraligero reportado el miércoles como desaparecido mientras operaba un vuelo desde San Cristóbal.