Mission
We aim to prevent the weatherfish from fading into oblivion and restore its role as Europe’s "living barometer" to mitigate climate change. By raising awareness and implementing conservation measures, we strive to protect this key species and promote natural river restoration.
Aims
- Bring together all weatherfish experts into one forum.
- Centralize all existing knowledge (website/database).
- Create cooperation (knowledge sharing, common project proposals, high-impact papers).
- Organize international meetings, workshops and symposia.
- Raise awareness by positioning weatherfish as a flagship species for the restoration of natural river dynamics (rewetting, environmental flows (eflows), free-flowing rivers in the new Nature Restoration Law).
- Educate the public, practitioners and government about awareness and habitat management.
Tasks
- Provide a comprehensive picture of the current distribution and trends across the weatherfish full range.
- Exchange knowledge on habitat preferences, monitoring effectiveness, climate change adaptations, competition with invasive species, pesticide sensitivity (both direct and indirect), (re)introduction success (including survival rates, domestication effects).
- Optimize the weatherfish ex-situ breeding protocol as part of its restoration process.
- Highlight the weatherfish to the general public and policymakers as the ultimate flagship species for restored floodplains and natural river dynamics in line with the new Nature Restoration Law (NRL).
- Gather life history traits and genetics on the Asian weatherfish species already present in its range.
Team
The core-team of SWAMP consists of:
Do you want to contribute to this specialist group? Then, you can fill in the form below, and you will be included in the SWAMP mailing list. You will gain access to our drive that contains scientific papers, reports (in native language), old book chapters, old newspaper articles, pictures, historical drawings, etc.