One of my favorite conservation projects co-led by @zslofficial.bsky.social - bringing back 3 species of Extinct in the Wild pupfish! Glad that @protectspecies.bsky.social at Indianapolis Zoo is involved in this, if only in a small way!!! Love all the pupfish drawings! www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...

The latest @protectspecies.bsky.social blog post out today - talking about the importance of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) for migratory freshwater fish! www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/mi...

🚨🚨🚨If you would like to stay connected with what's happening in conservation at the Indianapolis Zoo & around the world, there's now a quarterly newsletter you can sign up for. See post below 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/indian...

More about our comment piece in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com on migratory freshwater fishes, from @worldwildlife.org. Find out why we are calling on CMS Parties to add more threatened transboundary migratory freshwater fishes to the CMS Appendices! www.worldwildlife.org/news/sustain...

🚨🚨🚨Published: our comment piece in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, an output from last year's workshop on Migratory Fishes at Lake Tahoe, hosted by Zeb Hogan & the University of Nevada Reno.

🚨🚨🚨Call for submissions!!!🚨🚨🚨 We're excited to announce our upcoming special issue in the journal Diversity: "Innovating & Integrating Conservation Tools to Address the Global Extinction Crisis & Prevent Ecosystem Collapse". More info: www.mdpi.com/journal/dive... @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Shell yeah!!! Excited to announce that our first 3-year plan for our AZA SAFE program for North American Freshwater Mussels... HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!! 🙌

1/ IUCN World Conservation Congress - in a few pictures! It was a whirlwind of activities & I am still trying to digest everything, plus recharge my social batteries 😆 #IUCNcongress #wearessc

Great to see this important assessment update published! Congrats to @europebutterfly.bsky.social!

If - unlike me - you are free at this time, go to this session at #IUCNCongress2025! And then please tell me all about it! Should be a great one!

At the IUCN #WorldConservationCongress in Abu Dhabi (or online) & not sure which session to attend? Let us help! Join us to hear about dams, freshwater conservation & IUCN SSC-WCPA Inter-Commission Dams Task Force! 📆 October 11 2025 ⏲️ 10:00-11:30 Gulf Standard Time 🗺️ Session Room 6 & online!

Thank you Indianapolis Zoo for the funding! Fungal Taxonomy needs friends like you!!

🚨🚨🚨 We found a new genus of aquatic fungi right here in Indiana! 🚨🚨🚨 Learn more in this blog post! 👇

Luring you in with a sunny photo of Tampa! We had a fun few days already @ AZA Annual Meeting. We're flexing our muscles for North American FW mussels: great attendance @ SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) session & roundtable, our poster is up & ready to go for tonight's session. Shell yeah!

We're at the Association of Zoos & Aquariums Annual Conference in Tampa, FL! Spent some time with awesome musselheads to spread the word on our AZA SAFE plan for North American FW Mussels! Great attendance for 8am session! Thanks all for coming & watch this space for more to come! 💪💪💪

📣 📣 📣 Are you going to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Annual Conference in Tampa FL? Are you a musselhead or interested in becoming one? Then join us for one/several/all of the MANY sessions featuring AZA SAFE North American Freshwater Mussel!

Just when you thought I had talked about it enough already, another post appears about our Migratory Freshwater Fish workshop at Lake Tahoe! This time via IUCN Species Survival Commission! Several IUCN SSC members were involved in the workshop! iucn.org/story/202509...

Happy inaugural World Lake Day! Lakes are amazing! From habitat to water source, and climate regulation and recreational fun, lakes do it all and then some! Three cheers for lakes!!!

Remember the workshop I posted about in July, on Migratory Fishes, hosted by @unevadareno.bsky.social? We're still beating the drum about this, because migratory species deserve (and need!!! 🚨) more spotlight so we can help them survive and thrive in our world. indianapoliszoo.com/wp-content/u...

Blog about our recent migratory fish workshop hosted by University of Nevada Reno! Inspiring to meet with this dedicated group to discuss outputs that are usable & impactful for conservation policy & benefit these amazing species! freshwaterblog.net/2025/08/05/m...

Migratory fish is where it's at! Check out the news from our #migratoryfish workshop at Lake Tahoe, featuring several members of the @IUCNssc Freshwater Conservation Committee & Freshwater Fish Specialist Group: www.unr.edu/nevada-today...

We had a wonderful time at the migratory fish workshop hosted by our colleagues from University of Nevada Reno, right on the shores of Lake Tahoe. We discussed migratory fish, databases, CMS context and Swimways. Watch this space for some cool outputs!

The scope of #fungi #biodiversity is only beginning to be fathomed. Every day almost ten new species are described. 🍄🤯 David Hibbett László Nagy and Henrik Nilsson introduce the fungal tree of life. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our work is not done / never done! With around 300 species assessments still to publish on the IUCN Red List, there is still a lot to learn about the conservation status of these amazing species!

Love plants, conservation and the SSC? Come work with us! 🌺🌴🌵🌽🌲🌻 @protectspecies.bsky.social is looking for a passionate Plant Conservation Coordinator to support the IUCN Species Survival Commission's plant Specialist Groups. indianapoliszoo.applicantpro.com/jobs/3774489

With June nearly over - it's time to reflect on our Swallowtail of the Month, the common birdwing (Troides helena). (I clearly posted this in a rush originally and just got used to typing 'swallowtail'. Such is life when multitasking. 😂)

Love inverts, conservation and the SSC? Come work with us! @protectspecies.bsky.social is looking for a passionate Invertebrate Conservation Coordinator to support the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Invertebrate Specialist Groups. indianapoliszoo.applicantpro.com/jobs/3773405

Swallowtails are pretty epic, and on #WorldSwallowtailDay a few years back, I penned a birdwing inspired haiku. Might as well share it again... Birdwing high above, Bursts of colour among green Flutters, disappears. #yourewelcome #WorldSwallowtailDay

Happy #WorldSwallowtailDay! Here's a blast from the past, check out the podcast episode we released about swallowtails in... at some point in the past! Hahahaha!

Sometimes, it's difficult to keep focused on your contribution to online panel discussions when you also have this little weirdo in your line of sight.... 🤣😂 Great 1st partnership meeting, @shoalorg.bsky.social, very inspirational for me, yet tiring for the dog!

The Important Shark and Ray Areas project has just completed an expert workshop covering the European Atlantic region.

Excited to see the Assess to Plan report for European bivalves is out now! Given the dire state of these vital critters, this presents a HUGE step toward generating activities and actions for #freshwater bivalves! Well done to all involved! www.cpsg.org/sites/defaul...

One more sleep until International Day for Biodiversity 2025! Join @protectspecies.bsky.social, @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social, @funaction.bsky.social & @mostfun.bsky.social for a celebration of all things aquatic fungi! Register here: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi...

Only two more sleeps! Sign up for our Aquatic Fungi webinar now! You know you want to! #aquaticfungi

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Great talk by Nathan Whelan presenting the workshop outcomes & next steps from our January conservation translocation workshop at & led by @tnaquarium.bsky.social. @fmcs-mollusk.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Webinar alert! Come celebrate International Day of Biodiversity with us & learn all about #aquatic #fungi! @protectspecies.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social @mostfun.bsky.social @shoalorg.bsky.social

Cool webinar opportunity for Biodiversity Day! (Also keep your eyes peeled for another being advertised shortly on Aquatic Fungi!)

Protecting habitat is perhaps THE most important conservation strategy. But a proposed change to the Endangered Species Act would stop doing so, allowing people & companies to destroy habitat that endangered species need to survive. Join us in stopping this change ➡️ xerces.org/protect-the-esa

Presented on our first (still draft) 3 year Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) SAFE plan for North American #freshwater #mussels at the @fmcs-mollusk.bsky.social symposium in Ann Arbor. Can't wait for its approval later this year! Let's get more zoos & aquariums active for mussels! 💪

Dr. Lily-Arison René de Roland is the 2025 Indianapolis Prize Winner! After dedicating 20+ years to saving Madagascar's endangered birds of prey, Dr. René de Roland's conservation leadership has brought back multiple species from the brink of extinction. www.indianapoliszoo.com/prize/news/m...

At the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Symposium this week - excited to hang out with fellow musselheads!

Looking for a PhD opportunity in insect migration/conservation? Check out this cool opportunity with a super cool human! Also, Melbourne has great coffee!

☣️ A river 'died' overnight after an acidic waste spill from a mine, potentially affecting millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100km downstream. it has been described as, “an environmental disaster really of catastrophic consequences”. apnews.com/article/mini...

Very excited to work with the new IUCN SSC Sponge Specialist Group on all things freshwater sponges!

Really exciting PhD opportunity with @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social on biodiversity risk assessments! 👇

What do you know about #AquaticFungi in a changing & challenging world? Register now and submit your abstract for #SEFS14 🌟Special session 15🌟 Spread the word! @mostfun.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social www.sefs14.com

Check out our engagement & communication plan for our Biodiversa+ funded @funaction.bsky.social! Thanks for making this look so beautiful @jandbio.bsky.social! So much fun communicating about these poorly known fungi in our aquatic systems!

Happy World Wetlands Day! Reduce, reuse, recycle - also applies to blogs! Along with the blog post below about the Global FW Fauna Assessment, there are many more on the @protectspecies.bsky.social website, covering Indiana to Socotra, & aquatic fungi to mussels: www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/