The SHOAL 1,000 Fishes is the flagship initiative to accelerate action for freshwater species, spearheaded by action for the world’s most threatened fishes. The 1,000 Fishes Blueprint sets out a plan for how a commitment to a truly collaborative and inclusive conservation effort focusing on action for freshwater fishes could be deployed to accelerate and escalate global conservation impact. This global collaborative, given the right investment and intensity of support, will lift freshwater fishes and potentially thousands of other neglected freshwater species to a new elevated platform of conservation attention and in doing so greatly enhance freshwater conservation efforts globally.
This is not a plan just for 1,000 fishes. It is a plan for hundreds of critical freshwater habitats, vital to thousands of other species and thousands of communities, very often the poorest on the planet, that rely on these fish and the freshwater provided by their habitats for their everyday lives. This is also a plan that can demonstrate that by working together, we can achieve global change in a relatively short period of time.
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