🌊 Last month, WaterLANDS contributed to a policy event in Brussels on water resilience, alongside fellow restoration projects, coinciding with the final meeting of @merlin-project.bsky.social
🔗Read more on the event here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...
#NatureRestoration #WaterResilience #wetlands
WaterLANDS is an EU-funded project that will restore wetland sites across Europe and upscale wetland restoration for sustainable ecosystems, communities and economies.waterlands.eu
This policy brief explores the opportunities and challenges of mainstreaming nature-based approaches across all economic sectors, highlighting the need to strengthen coordination and collaboration to achieve freshwater restoration.
🔗 Download here: project-merlin.eu/policy-brief...
Calling all freshwater science fans! Have you registered for our Annual Scientific Meeting? The ASM is in Edinburgh on Thursday 11 June. We would love you to join us!
The ASM has an inspiring line-up including a keynote from Bernd Hänfling.
Find out more & register!
www.fba.org.uk/annual-scien...
We are still releasing some podcasts! This week's episode 🎙️ 𝗘𝗣.𝟭𝟱 – 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁? shares key insights from the panel discussion at our policy event held in Brussels in March 2026.
🔗 Tune in here: project-merlin.eu/podcasts.html
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🌍 We held the AquaPLAN Interim General Meeting today, bringing partners together to discuss ongoing work and upcoming deliverables.
📅 Great progress across the project and meaningful exchanges as we continue to move forward. Looking ahead, our next meeting is scheduled for October 2026!
It's World Environment Day 🌍
@ec.europa.eu is reviewing the Birds & Habitats Directives - have your say for biodiversity!
Through AquaPLAN we’re helping safeguard aquatic ecosystems by tackling light & noise pollution with smarter data-driven planning & monitoring tools
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Great to see #ISOLUME advancing research on marine lightscapes across Europe 🌊🌉
AquaPLAN is closely connected with common partners & coordinator Elena Maggi a member of their Science Advisory & Stakeholder Panel
Looking forward to the collaboration ahead!
aquaplan-project.eu/aquaplan-and...
Happy International Biodiversity Day!
As we celebrate #BiodiversityDay, it’s important to remember that addressing global biodiversity challenges begins with local action, strong research, and meaningful partnerships. Everyone has a role to play!
Read more: aquaplan-project.eu/aquaplan-sho...
Just published! Our new study reveals that anthropogenic #noise dominates the shallow-water #soundscape of the eastern Ionian Sea, from speedboats to offshore #seismic surveys. Growing challenge for marine #biodiversity #conservation & #management. 🌊🔊🌐🌍🧪
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Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...
Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...
Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...
🌍 New paper just published! We reviewed 20 years of #marine #SystematicConservationPlanning worldwide and found a striking gap between theory and real-world implementation. We also identify context-specific good practices to close it. 🐟🌊🌐🌍🧪
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
