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Matt Ford

@SeriouslyFish

Freshwater conservation | Biodiversity science–policy | IUCN Red List

 Berlin, Germany
seriouslyfish.com
Joined October 2010
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BREAKING: Freshwater species populations have crashed by 85% on average since 1970 - finds new @WWF & @ZSLconservation report! We must scale up investment NOW in protecting and restoring our rivers, lakes and wetlands - for nature & people livingplanet.panda.org
Image from WWF Water 💧🐟 (@WWFLeadWater)
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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/NaturaSlo…
Image from Ulrich Eichelmann (@UlrichEichelman)
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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 @JRSBiodiversity @narouganda @MAAIF_Uganda
Image from Laban Musinguzi (@Labanmusinguzi)
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Finally the world's largest cave fish gets a name! Presenting Neolissochilus pnar #mahseer Just out in Vertebrate Zoology @geobiodiversity vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.… @SJC_fishy @MahseerTrust @WWFLeadWater @FW_Conservation @kathyahughes @Shoal_Org @AFL_org @julielovesfish

The world’s largest cave fish from Meghalaya, Northeast India, is a new species, Neolissochilus...

The world’s largest subterranean fish was discovered in 2019, and was tentatively identified as a troglomorphic form of the golden mahseer, Tor putitora. Detailed analyses of its morphometric and...

vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
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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/Chines… #fish #hydropower 🐟🐟
Image from Jens Svenning (@JCSvenning)
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SHOAL@Shoal_Org14 Jun 2022
Ever wondered how species are assessed and classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered for the @IUCNRedList? Well, assessors such as @CatherineASayer go through a thorough process. We caught up with Catherine to learn more 👇👇 shoalconservation.org/assess… #EndangeredSpecies
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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.
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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
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The Twitter-verse has spoken. And the winner is... Don't want to spoil the surprise but #fish 🐠🐟🐡 lovers will be happy @DrKatfish @FishGuyKai @fishmigration @FishMigrationDr @WorldFishCenter @PREAUX_FISH @RArlinghausFish @SeriouslyFish @DrFishSG @AmFisheriesSoc @kassthefish
💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧 (@Stuart_Orr) profile picture💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧@Stuart_Orr13 Dec 2021
Freshwater Species of the Week Winner 2021! Thanks everyone for the support and for spreading the word on our amazing FW biodiversity! @WWFLeadWater @WWF_DG @MahseerTrust @SolomonRDavid @wwfRU @WWFCEE @WWF_DG @henkovink @minaguli @UNBiodiversity @IPBES @kathyahughes @IUCN_Water
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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/#in… with @PictetGroup @WWFLeadWater
Image from 💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧 (@Stuart_Orr)
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Land protection ≠ Freshwater protection. Call to Action to explicitly include Inland waters in post-2020 #biodiversity Framework & better metrics for measuring freshwater protection @UNEP @unepwcmc @NatGeo @IUCN_Water @IUCN @nature_wonks
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@WWFLeadWater18 Aug 2021
We are facing a nature crisis. And it's most acute in freshwater ecosystems - our life support systems! Yet the draft @UNBiodiversity deal still refers to 'land & sea'. Great @jjopperman blog about why we must stop lumping freshwater in with 'land' medium.com/@WWFWater/want-to…
Want to save rivers, lakes & wetlands? Stop lumping them in with ‘land’

Want to save rivers, lakes & wetlands? Stop lumping them in with ‘land’

By Jeff Opperman, WWF Global Lead Freshwater

medium.com
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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/…
‘Gamechanging’ £10m environmental DNA project to map life in world’s rivers

‘Gamechanging’ £10m environmental DNA project to map life in world’s rivers

eBioAtlas programme aims to identify fish, birds, amphibians and land animals in freshwater systems from the Ganges to the Mekong

theguardian.com
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First PhD paper out! Here, we show how monitoring data can be used to evaluate the impact of wetland reserves on breeding🐦 4 out of 5 trends more +ve re counterfactuals📈 Emphasizes the value of large-scale monitoring data in future impact evaluation conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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New research pinpoints where to restore degraded ecosystems to avert the extinction of 70% of threatened species and bring host of other benefits nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Image from Stuart Butchart (@stubutchart)
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Buscamos doctorand@ (FPI 2020) (motivad@ y competente :-) para proyecto @GRECO_UdG @IEA_UdG "Biología de la conservación de peces ciprinodontiformes en peligro de extinción: ecología". Contrato: 4 años. Fecha límite: 27 octubre. Más info: invasiber.org/GarciaBerthou/… Gracias por RT
Apricaphanius (=Aphanius) iberus. Copyright photo: Lluís Zamora

ALT Apricaphanius (=Aphanius) iberus. Copyright photo: Lluís Zamora

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Important new reports from @KewScience (kew.org/science/state-of-the…) & @BirdLife_News (birdlife.org/SOWBtargets), including documentation of @IUCNRedList Indices showing increasing extinction risk for samples of plants (left) and for all birds (right), respectively
Image from Thomas Brooks (@IUCNscience)
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Today @WWFLeadWater publishes the #LivingPlanetReport Deep into #freshwater section. It can be downloaded at wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/do… It highlights the status and trends of freshwaters, as well as an emergency recovery plan.
Image from FW Conservation (@FW_Conservation)
Image from FW Conservation (@FW_Conservation)
Image from FW Conservation (@FW_Conservation)
Image from FW Conservation (@FW_Conservation)
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#2020Megabiodiversity For all the fish-freaks, a selection of freshwater species from the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. There are 110 different Mesopotamian freshwater and diadromous fishes, not so many for such a large river system. Pic free to use CC BY-NC
Image from Jörg Freyhof (@jorg_freyhof)
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Our species of the day is a super rare Paracobitis from a remote region in Turkey. Never reported before. Cüneyt was there four times and I was twice. Only two individulas were found at all. A real new discovery!
Image from Jörg Freyhof (@jorg_freyhof)
Image from Jörg Freyhof (@jorg_freyhof)
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New first of its kind study reveals over 500 dams planned for development within protected areas, raising red flags for rivers that run through them. Critical need for leadership of government & private sector to prevent new dams in PAs. shorturl.at/jrzIZ
Image from michele thieme (@MicheleThieme)
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