Wenwei Ren

Water Practice Leader in WWF China, Head of Shanghai Office. Professor in Tongji University. #human-nature coupled system #water #Yangtze River # SDGs

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Fucheng, best-known #shorebird site in Zhanjiang Natl Nat Res, Guandong, is now rarely visited by birds. This has logic: we found little macrobenthos. With mudflats open to people fishing #shellfish & fish, it is depleted. Have wintering spoon-billed sandpipers found alternative?

[WWF Water 💧🐟 @WWFLeadWater]

OUT NOW: Living Yangtze report 2022 shows that the overall health of the river basin has improved over past 4 years. Shows what's possible with concerted, collaborative action to restore rivers.

Launched to coincide with @WWCongress in Beijing

https://t.co/eyzEjYTP8g

[Uzma Khan @commonleopardo]

Excellent news came in today, the Yangtze finless porpoise population increased from 1012 in 2017 to 1249 today. The only freshwater porpoise species in the world, @WWF_water @IUCNCetaceanSG @MarineMammalCom @XHNews @discovery_prog @WWFChina

[💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧 @Stuart_Orr]

#4 The Common Yabby has some uncommon characteristics. Australia's most widespread #freshwater crayfish, it can range in color from blue to brown, black, yellow & red. And survive in temperatures from 1 to 35 C! It also has cannibalistic tendencies... https://t.co/VxihQ0SQ5f

[💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧 @Stuart_Orr]

Rivers and Deltas are essential in addressing climate change. Do you know enough about how sand mining is undermining them both? Great blog from @marcgoichot
@deltares @EcoShapeBwN @WWFAsianDeltas @WWFLeadWater @FIDIC @Arup @UNEP
https://t.co/axwTtQnTWF

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

The upper tidal flats along #YellowSea are disproportionally important for shorebirds, including spoon-billed #sandpipers, but also the first to be lost to invasive cordgrass #Spartina. We tested effectiveness and side-effects of removal with a herbicide: https://t.co/6szo5IjjUt

[Wenwei Ren @WWF_water]

@fishconserve @shanghaidaily In this picture, I think it should be Yangtze sturgeon, no Chinese sturgeon extinct in the wild.

[WWF Water 💧🐟 @WWFLeadWater]

Sturgeon = world's most threatened group of species

New @IUCNRedList shows 2/3 of species are now Critically Endangered - on brink of extinction

But we can still save the remaining 26 species. And we must. Because saving sturgeon will save so much more

https://t.co/OjOt93qsyv

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Due to COVID pandemic, @GlobalFlyway observers from Au, NL & UK were again unable to travel to China. Our Chinese colleagues were also restricted in their movements. Instead, field work was conducted by our Nanpu friends, father & son Liu. Find report at
https://t.co/uvmWvpstxM

[Wenwei Ren @WWF_water]

Five Dalmatian Pelicans found in Chongming Dongtan NR this week. It is probably one of the largest waterbird in east Asia, is estimated to be only around 150 individuals.@Richlee_sa @Stuart_Orr @Glyn_nature @WWF_DG @david_tickner

[WWF Water 💧🐟 @WWFLeadWater]

Today @WWF celebrates it's 60th anniversary. We've achieved so much in partnership with communities, businesses, other NGOs & governments. But there is so much more to do - especially to reverse the loss of #freshwater biodiversity

#ValuingRivers #TogetherPossible

[💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧 @Stuart_Orr]

On #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2021 - shout out to the incredible women who fight for Freshwater conservation and biodiversity within #WWF and beyond!! @WWFLeadWater @WWFEuropeRivers @aruhweza @WWF_BlueAfrica @WWFAsianDeltas @JSchwartzWWF @MicheleThieme

[💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧 @Stuart_Orr]

It’s amazing what swims below the surface of our rivers, lakes & wetlands - over 18,000 species of #ForgottenFishes.
Find out more about the world’s fabulous freshwater fish in our new report: https://t.co/HQtzr12TNz
@hbriggs @TomFWater @SarniWilliam @AmFisheriesSoc

[💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧 @Stuart_Orr]

8 Freshwater Talking points!! #climateiswater, adaptation is water!!, Water as Leverage, Russian rivers, River Dolphins, Montenegro dams, Indian water-thon, Alliance for Inland Fisheries launch!
https://t.co/4PJjdL2L2n @WaterasLeverage @henkovink @WWFLeadWater @wwfRU @WWFINDIA

[SBS_in_China @SBS_in_China]

Good news! After 30+ years, China finally takes action to update its protected animal list. Spoon-billed Sandpipers and Nordmann's Greenshanks have gone from 'nobody' to the strictest Class I protection. Asian Dowitchers have also been upgraded to Class II protection! ©Luke Tang

[WWF Water 💧🐟 @WWFLeadWater]

Great NEWS: #China upgrades Yangtze finless porpoise to highest level of protection - big boost to efforts to conserve the critically endangered species

https://t.co/TyQh9hIWDM

@WWFRiverDolphin

[Marco Lambertini @ConvenerNatureP]

That’s why we call it #climatecrisis

Can have similar animation for #deforestation #overfishing #biodiversity loss #plastic pollution..

All together sum up the ‘great acceleration’ of unsustainable development
Still in time to correct course...just about