SHOAL

20/05/2026

Our second free 📢 WEBINAR 📢 is one week away!

💻 SPRING BIODIVERSITY AND RESEARCH
🗓️ Wednesday 27th May, 3-5pm BST

We'll be joined by four expert voices from the world of freshwater for conversation and presentations on these fascinating little ecosystems 💧

👉 Rajeev Raghavan
Assistant Professor, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, South Asia Chair of the IUCN's Freshwater Fish Specialist Group

👉 Chris Martin
Associated Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkely

👉 Michi Tobler
Professor of Biology, University of Missouri–St. Louis, Senior Scientist, Saint Louis Zoo’s WildCare Institute

👉 Mary Seddon
Chair, SSC Mollusc Specialist Group

Register here 👇
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kJsB7fVVSbm81-0DW6tNuA

11/05/2026

Everything begins in the water... 💧

But with anthropogenic pressures, that water is now changing.

🐟 Beings of the Water is born to remind us about what we can't see, and too nudge us that we cannot protect what we don't know about.

Beings of the Water connects science, art and Indigenous wisdom to showcase the fundamental role of fish in life, culture, and the balance of the Amazonian territories.

Developed in Colombia, Brazil and Peru, the project opens a dialogue between communities, researchers, artists and NGOs, inviting people to look at rivers ands their inhabitants as sources of life, culture, heritage and future.

🤝 This is a project built on partnership.
✨ See the world from the water.



.almundo

11/05/2026

A reminder to register for our second 📢 WEBINAR! 📢

📆 Wednesday 27 May
🕒 3pm BST
🗣️ Four experts from the world of springs science will update us on all things springs biodiversity and research.

It's going to be a fascinating session!

Register now 👇
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KJjyl6L2TDSBezrs9gT2YA

08/05/2026

🌤️ Hoy lanzamos Seres del Agua: peces de la Amazonía frente al cambio climático, una iniciativa colectiva que conecta ciencia, arte y saberes indígenas para visibilizar el papel fundamental de los peces como indicadores de los cambios ecosistémicos en la Amazonía.
🌤️ Today we launch Beings of the Water: Amazonian fishes in the face of climate change, a collective initiative that connects science, art, and Indigenous knowledge to highlight the fundamental role of fishes as indicators of ecosystem change in the Amazon.

🐟🐟
Este proyecto surge de una red de alianzas interdisciplinarias e internacionales que reconoce q ue los desafíos ambientales actuales requieren enfoques integrados, donde el conocimiento científico dialogue con los saberes culturales y ancestrales.
🐟🐟
This project emerges from a network of interdisciplinary and international partnerships that recognizes that today’s environmental challenges require integrated approaches, where scientific knowledge engages in dialogue with cultural and ancestral knowledge systems.

🐟🐟🐟🐟
Más que un proyecto, es una plataforma de articulación para:
✅ la conservación de ecosistemas acuáticos
✅ la apropiación social del conocimiento
✅ la divulgación científica con enfoque intercultural.
🐟🐟🐟🐟
More than a project, it is a platform for collaboration aimed at:
✅ the conservation of aquatic ecosystems
✅ the social appropriation of knowledge
✅ science communication with an intercultural approach

🌳 🌳
Creemos que la transformación solo es posible desde lo colectivo.
Te invitamos a ser parte de este viaje: 👉 www.seresdelagua.com
🌳 🌳
We believe that transformation is only possible through collective action. We invite you to be part of this journey: 👉 www.seresdelagua.com

01/05/2026

Migratory freshwater fish are in trouble: Will we act in time to save them?

💧 Migratory freshwater fish have declined by an estimated 81% since 1970 yet remain largely overlooked in global conservation policy. At the latest meeting of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), a new assessment identified 325 species worldwide in urgent need of coordinated protection.
💧 These long-distance swimmers underpin inland fisheries that feed hundreds of millions of people across the Amazon, Mekong, Congo and other river basins. By moving through river systems, they connect habitats, sustain food webs and support local economies.
💧 Dams, water extraction and habitat loss are rapidly severing migration routes, often cutting off access to spawning and feeding grounds. Scientists warn that without stronger protections, many migratory fish species — and the river systems they sustain — face an uncertain future.

SALOBRA, Brazil — Life revolves around water in this quiet fishing village in Brazil’s southern Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland. Here, a clear tributary meets the broader Miranda River, part of a vast floodplain where multiple streams spill across the landscape and wildlife thrives. Jagu...

01/05/2026

📢 WEBINAR 📢

Join our second free Webinar!

💻 SPRING BIODIVERSITY AND RESEARCH
🗓️ Wednesday 27th May, 3-5pm BST

We'll be joined by four expert voices from the world of freshwater for conversation and presentations on these fascinating little ecosystems 💧

👉 Rajeev Raghavan
Assistant Professor, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, South Asia Chair of the IUCN's Freshwater Fish Specialist Group

👉 Chris Martin
Associated Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkely

👉 Michi Tobler
Professor of Biology, University of Missouri–St. Louis, Senior Scientist, Saint Louis Zoo’s WildCare Institute

👉 Mary Seddon
Chair, SSC Mollusc Specialist Group

Register here 👇
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kJsB7fVVSbm81-0DW6tNuA

30/04/2026

We are tremendously excited to release our 2025 Annual Review!

Dive in to read about the fantastic work the wider SHOAL partnership has achieved over the past 12 months:

🤝 Built ever closer ties with all corners of IUCN
🐟 Launched an alliance of zoos and aquaria
🐠 Kickstarted a killifish programme
📱 Developed an app to keep track of catches of threatened fishes

and much more!

Read here 👇
https://shoal.org/publications/?fwp_categories=annual-review

29/04/2026

For 30 years, the Disney Conservation Fund has supported organisations working with communities to protect wildlife, inspire action, and promote environmental resilience – including SHOAL, through our partners Re:wild, along with Wonders of the Mekong and Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia!

With support from Disney, we have been able to launch a national hotline, deployed the Mekong Fish App, established a Cambodian rapid-response team, and linked those tools to provincial fisheries authorities and community outreach efforts. The support will help:

💧 establish protection and restoration of migration corridors,
💧 improve protection and management of Fish Conservation Zones in three provinces,
💧 secure legal protection for at least two additional Critically Endangered migratory fish.

It will also increase education and awareness of the Mekong fishes and fisheries while also solidifying the importance of these with national policy.



📸

29/04/2026

For 30 years, the Disney Conservation Fund has supported organisations working with communities to protect wildlife, inspire action, and promote environmental resilience – including SHOAL, through our partners Re:wild, along with Wonders of the Mekong and Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia!

With support from Disney, we have been able to launch a national hotline, deployed the Mekong Fish App, established a Cambodian rapid-response team, and linked those tools to provincial fisheries authorities and community outreach efforts. The support will help:

💧 establish protection and restoration of migration corridors,
💧 improve protection and management of Fish Conservation Zones in three provinces,
💧 secure legal protection for at least two additional Critically Endangered migratory fish.

It will also increase education and awareness of the Mekong fishes and fisheries while also solidifying the importance of these with national policy.

29/04/2026

🎥 WATCH: 'The Hidden Gem of Borneo's Peat Swamps', a new film about SHOAL and IUCN ASAP partner Tropical Conservation Society (TCS)

Deep within the dense peat swamp forests of Borneo lives a hidden gem, small but strikingly beautiful fish confined to a tiny range in one of the world's most threatened habitats.

🐟 Parosphromenus ornaticauda, otherwise known as the Redtail Licorice Gourami

The film captures TCS's vital work to save the Critically Endangered fish species in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

We're proud and excited for SHOAL to support this critical work, in collaboration with IUCN Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP)

Watch the full film on YouTube and find out how you can be part of the solution 👇
https://www.youtube.com/