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Removing “Road Dams” in Europe – Webinar

The World Fish Migration Foundation, The United States Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy invite you to join us for a 3 hour, international webinar highlighting the need and opportunities to improve road and stream crossings to enhance the biodiversity … Continue reading

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Are EU MEPs Ready to Boost Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies?

When the European Commission announced the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, exactly one year ago, we estimated that they could be potential game changers for EU nature, food and farming policies. In the next few weeks, EU lawmakers have … Continue reading

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Stop Legal Hunting of Endangered Animals

In Finland the law allows hunting of 17 threatened species. That is unbearable. A group of Finnish individuals has put up a Citizens’ intiative to change this law. If at least fifty thousand Finnish citizens entitled to vote will sign … Continue reading

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Freshwater Fish are in Trouble

“​With hydropower, overfishing, climate change and pollution on the rise, populations of migratory freshwater fish species have plummeted globally by 76% on average since 1970, including a 93% collapse in Europe.” 93% collapse in migratory freshwater fish populations in Europe … Continue reading

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It’s the Anthropocene Baby!

Many scientists think we are now living a new epoch, the Anthropocene. It is defined to be the Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and … Continue reading

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