February WWF world wide fund for nature report on freshwater fish species. Found that 16 species went extinct. Freshwater fish are biological indicators of ecosystem health and the decline in population could be a problem for the 200 million whose livelihood and food rely on healthy freshwater fish populations. Overfishing is the greatest threat to populations and makes it difficult for them to recover; sand mining and invasive species also hurt aquatic ecosystems and are detrimental to population health.
We would like a New Deal for freshwater ecosystems at the UN convention on biological diversity conference on May 17th. This is a COP 15 meeting and will create the final biodiversity framework for the 2020 decade. A lot rides on this conference, it is crucial we protect the river ecosystems to prevent species collapse. Simple solutions are possible and success depends on the politics of the convention.
Disha Ravi is one of the founders of a Fridays4Future chapter in India and was arrested for creating a toolkit on effective protest strategies to support farmers during the farmers strike. The tool kit was a document on effective social justice campaigns and an outline for better decision making during a protest. The document also had links to other websites where more information could be found on effective strike procedures. Imprisoned for five days from February 19th-23rd- judge released her after finding no reason for arrest. Although some violence at the protests, this was not linked with her toolkit.
Ravi's arrest was heavily criticized. Also earlier the FFF website was blocked when it supported a block against and impact assessment document by the Indian government. This shows a continuing trend against democratic ideas and freedom of speech. Here is a powerful quote, Ravi said: "the threat to democracy and environmental action shows the power of government and their motive to suppress dissent." The arrest of Disha Ravi was completely unwarranted. How do you think about the idea of a growing threat to democracy and what experiences have you had and how do you discuss this topic?
Notes: can lead through actions and words, materialistic belongings should not be held against you or discount your environmental actions. If doing environment so much as they are, to some extent have the right to mansions and private jets.- not sure how much I agree with discussion takeaways.
Please signup for the conference! It should be a lot of fun and we have a great speaker.
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