Monni Böhm
Freshwater Conservation Coordinator at Indianapolis Zoo
Pacers & Fever 🏀 fan. Dog mum. Rugby obsessed.
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- 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...
- Adding the link to the paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com again: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- 🚨🚨🚨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!
- We're proud to have supported this effort to reassess the butterflies to Europe, but the results are sobering: Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List iucncongress2025.org/newsroom/all...
- 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!
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- 🚨🚨🚨 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!!!
