#Freshwater Ecosystems

[gpstudios]

Title: World Rivers Day: Celebrating and Protecting Our Vital Waterways

Celebrate World Rivers Day on September 22 by engaging in activities that protect and appreciate our vital waterways. Join cleanup efforts, support conservation organizations, and advocate for river protection.

Introduction World Rivers Day, observed annually on September 22, highlights the importance of rivers and their role in sustaining ecosystems, communities, and economies. This day aims to raise awareness about the challenges facing our rivers and encourage actions to protect and preserve these vital waterways. Join in the celebration by learning about local rivers, participating in cleanup…

[waterandenergyrelief]

Partnerships and cooperation for water and climate change.

The cross-sectoral nature and interdependence of water and climate change with other vital natural resources, such as land or energy, can create more opportunities for partnerships and cooperation.

Accelerating action through partnerships and cooperation between water and climate stakeholders can create additional benefits to freshwater ecosystems and to the most exposed and vulnerable people, reducing disaster risks, delivering cost savings, fostering job creation and generating economic opportunities.

This requires improving existing partnerships and, in some cases, forging new ones at all levels, from local, national, basin to global, through multi-stakeholder processes. Research and learning institutions, the private sector, and civil society, including youth, women and marginalized groups, play a key role and support efforts to underpin effective government leadership and action.

World Water Development Report 2023 - Partnerships and cooperation for Water and climate change.

[lake-lady]

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

I ate all the turkeys in Turkey Creek. What, you don't believe me?

Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki)

the Turkey Creek watershed, Alabama, USA

Status: federally Endangered; Critically Endangered (IUCN)

[dootznbootz]

Penelope, arms crossed and looking him up and down, before smiling smugly: "...That's a parasite. You're holding a parasite right now."

(rdyugih I love it! Thank you so much! 😭 He's so fucking silly. Odysseus has something called stupid™ when he's around Penelope.)

[missedmilemarkers]

[jurrasicoresposts]

the lowest tier of maid in the estate is the one who has to put on the diving equipment and clean the 40,000 gallon freshwater tank. This duty would often be used as a punishment doled out by the head maid, and gave rise to the phrase "sweep with the fishes"

[miyrumiyru]

I love a little ditch have its own ecosystem, it's so precious

[relatablemarine]

Okay, okay. I know this isn't a marine animal but I recently read about this little beauty and decided that you all should be informed as well. As it turns out the 'normal looking guy who is secretly kind of a freak' trope is not exclusive to the human species. This unassuming 11cm gastropod has a hidden talent, it is possibly the only freshwater snail known to science with the ability to produce bioluminescence. Like most 'limpets', the luminescent limpet (Latia) absolutely love scraping organic matter and algae off rocks. This amazing specimen however, can generate a glowing slime as a defense mechanism when disturbed. They are also real homebodies, only being found in stony stream systems of the north island (Te Ika-a-Māui) of the country of New Zealand. In between these marvelous critters and the native glow worm (Arachnocampa luminosa) you would be forgiven for imagining the NZ wilderness as some kind of green-tinted nighttime rave. These sensitive little souls however are currently at risk due to declining water quality New Zealand rivers.

Photo: Shaun lee

[filmxella]

Curious lil’ guy

[queen-boudicca]

Me when doing my environmental science homework, at every available opportunity:

[m0e-ru]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to the day my brain was literally rewired and my gender was being changed by the second SO HERES A GAS STATION SPECIAL before this joint was even a gas station in the FIRST PLACE !!!!

FUCKING FREAK

[theskyisdown]

My boy got y= f(-x)’ed

[blujayonthewing]

crucial to me that you understand that this happens right before laios tries a little raw bite of the giant parasite they all cooked and ate like a fish

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Others said it wouldn't fly in rural Tennessee, but the day I got my green fin dye was the day I became a whole new fish. That's how I became the BOLDER darter.

Boulder Darter (Etheostoma wapiti)

Elk River system in Tennessee and Alabama, USA

Status: Endangered

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[kvetch19]

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