Back from PAFFA5 in Bujumbura. What a great time! I'm not going to attempt a summary of those five days, but I have posted my photos to three Flickr galleries: one for the meeting, one just for the posters, and another for two days spent collecting fishes in the Ruzizi basin of Burundi after the mee
While people are making plans for the upcoming PAFFA meeting in Bujumbura in September, I thought I'd post a link to a gallery of photos I took at the last PAFFA, in Addis Ababba, Ethiopia, September 2008.
It was a great time. Hoping that PAFFA 5 is as great a success (and that I'll be able to attend)!
Welcome to the new Africhthy, now based on Scratchpads v.2!
You'll see a much cleaner look, with a small, rotating image gallery up front and a totally revised user interface. The fish and watershed taxonomies have been moved to tabs along the top of the page. The French language interface is being re-written and this will take some time. (Our apologies to our francophone members!)
UPDATE: WE HAVE REACHED OUR GOAL! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CHIPPED IN!
On June 24th, 2012, over 50 Mai Mai Simba bandits armed with automatic weapons invaded the small town of Epulu, D.R. Congo, headquarters for the Okapi Faunal Reserve, killing seven people and 13 captive Okapis, raping women, looting, burning buildings, and taking hostages. This attack was not political, but motivated by anger that the ICCN, the Congolese Conservation authority, had been cracking down on wildlife poaching within the reserve.
Africa and the Neotropics both harbor endemic monophyletic groups of teleost fishes, each of about 200 described species, that communicate, find their prey, and navigate through freshwater habitats at night by means of a sophisticated “active” electric sense. They produce a weak electric field around their body with an electric organ and detect nearby objects as distortions to this field via arrays of receptors distributed over their skin. These are the Mormyroidea (Africa) and the Gymnotiformes (South and Central America).
I knew next to nothing about fish farming until last summer when I helped to copyedit the English version of Yves Fermon's "Subsistence fish farming in Africa: a technical manual." I am still no expert, but at least now when I hear that there's a monk in a fish pond I know better than to ask if he can swim.
Africhthy is a Scratchpads-based data management and social networking website for the community of researchers, conservationists, technicians and hobbyists who work with African fishes.
We envision Africhthy.org evolving into the premier African ichthyology web resource: a place to locate literature, images, and other information on African fishes, to disseminate our own publications and reports, and just as importantly, to find each other and work together.
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For me, the names of few African rivers have the power to inspire a daydream like the Lukuga.
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