Collaborating to create the Luangwa River Report Card
From April 28- May 17, Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, and Lili Badri traveled to Zambia to work with WWF Zambia on the development of the Luangwa River Basin Report Card. In the first week, we hosted a report card training workshop in Lusaka, which allowed WWF and specific partners to learn about tools and techniques for stakeholder engagement, data analysis, and science communication. The following two weeks consisted of stakeholder workshops in Katete and Mpika where professionals across different sectors had the opportunity to create a shared vision for the Luangwa River Basin and identify and prioritize indicators to evaluate. This project will be our third collaboration with WWF Zambia, with previous projects including the Lower Kafue River Basin Report Card in 2019 and the Cuando River Basin Report Card in 2021. Stay tuned for a detailed workshop summary newsletter this summer.
Recent IAN publications
Check out some of the following publications we had last month:
- Patapsco River 2023 Report Card: This report card, produced with Patapsco Heritage Greenway as part of the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative, assesses the condition of the Patapsco River using volunteer monitoring data for the second year in a row.
- Luangwa River Workshop Newsletter: This newsletter summarizes the results of two stakeholder workshops held in May 2024 for the development of the Luangwa River Basin Report Card with WWF Zambia.
- Invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay: A risk to realizing Bay restoration investments: In collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), this fact sheet highlights the characteristics of invasive blue catfish, emphasizes the spread of blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay over time, and informs about the capabilities of USGS to respond to this management challenge.