Zoologist woking with #sharks, #rays and #sawfish. Founder of @SharksAndRaysAu. I love leading expeditions to remote regions. Join us in the field!
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So much respect to you Stan Grant. What a powerful speech. Love will always win 💙 #QandA
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Barbara Wueringer retweeted
Our final keynote of #SharksInt2022 @NickDulvy outlined how overfishing is causing biodiversity loss of evolutionary distinct species and how "Science is a team sport" - you need to build the tools in order to build the community & vice versa.
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
#Overfishing is THE problem:
➡️ Almost all (99.6%, 1,093 of 1,199) chondrichthyans affected by fishing.
➡️ Overfishing is main risk for all (100%) of the 391 threatened chondrichthyans.
➡️ About 1/3 of threatened species are also imperiled by habitat degradation.
#SharksInt2022
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
Message: We. Need. Data.
Basic life history data are missing for so many species and are critical to informing policy. #SharksInt2022
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
Great talk by @BWueringer of @SharksAndRaysAu on sawfish conservation efforts in Australia
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
🔊on! Stingrays: no longer the silent residents of the sea. Our new paper provides the 1st evidence of not one but TWO species of #stingray actively producing sounds doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3812 @BWueringer @jdelgadoesteban @MotherOfRays @SLU_aqua @fish_thinkers @ESAEcology 1/
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
New #SawsharkScience out in @RFBFisheries! Genetic analysis shows common & southern sawsharks have different population structures, likely due to the opening and closing of Bass Strait during the Pleistocene. @urchinhunter @BWueringer @MEG_MQ @MQBiology
link.springer.com/article/10…
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
Awesome example of the "landscape of fear" (LOF) - how the presence of a potential predator modifies the behaviours of & space use by other animals.
Also see sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/… for a great real-world example of a LOF & it's implications for #conservation
#shark #sharks
Let’s run as far as we can from that tiger! @UniversidadUCR @globalfinprint #bruvs #sharks #cocosisland #conservation #monitoring
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
How excited would you be to see this?! This curious dwarf sawfish approached fishers in the Kimberley last week. @saveourseas @TSCommissioner @WestAustralia @CitSciOZ @SharkRayFund @sawfishconserv
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
Gosh this is so awkward. Australian PM Scott Morrison goes to try and shake the hand of a firefighter who does not appear keen. (The PM was abused earlier by angry locals) Filmed by @GregNelsonACS @abcnews #AustraliaBurning #NSWbushfires #SouthCoastFires
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
Last week, @BWueringer had the pleasure of meeting @TSCommissioner to talk about sawfish research and conservation in Queensland. The meeting went incredibly well! Colleagues from @CapeYorkNRM and @NorthernGulf were also there to discuss the future of these magnificent animals.
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
This is outrageous. Removing protection from the small areas of marine sanctuary zone we have in NSW. There is no evidence base that will back this decision. Recreational fishers support marine parks too because we know they are good for all. #marineparks naroomanewsonline.com.au/sto…
Hey friends please help us get back on the road!!#conservation #endangeredspecies #Gofundme #research #shark #Queensland 🦈🐟💙
Traveling to our remote field sites for #sawfish research is dangerous. In July we had a car accident. Luckily nobody was injured but our car is gone. We’ve launched a GoFundMe, please help us get back on the road. Your support means so much to us! bit.ly/2QxFV62
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
We conduct #research in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. While we work with #sawfish, data is collected from every animal caught and released, including 28 species of sharks & rays and >50 species of teleosts. In 2020 we will expand to the #GBRMPA. #conservation #endangered
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
saying
“we’ve always had bushfires”
…when 130 fires are burning in early spring, including in rainforest…
is like saying
“nobody lives forever”
after a mass murder.
Barbara Wueringer retweeted
@SteffenMalskaer got the difficult task of retrieving our oceanographic moorings and weather station on sea ice in North West Greenland this year. Rapid melt and sea ice with low permeability and few cracks leaves the melt water on top.
