<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Declining fish biodiversity in Peruvian Amazon
affecting human nutrition</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">by </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/by/liz-kimbrough-2/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Liz Kimbrough</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">28 May 2021</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/declining-fish-biodiversity-in-peruvian-amazon-affecting-human-nutrition/?utm_source=Mongabay+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e9c1d7db22-Newsletter_2020_04_30_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_940652e1f4-e9c1d7db22-77237718&mc_cid=e9c1d7db22&mc_eid=b698d4520b">https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/declining-fish-biodiversity-in-peruvian-amazon-affecting-human-nutrition/?utm_source=Mongabay+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e9c1d7db22-Newsletter_2020_04_30_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_940652e1f4-e9c1d7db22-77237718&mc_cid=e9c1d7db22&mc_eid=b698d4520b</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">As the biodiversity of freshwater fish declines, what
does this mean for human nutrition?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Declining fish diversity in the Loreto department of
the Peruvian Amazon could affect nutrition for many of the region’s 800,000
people, according to new study published in the journal </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/22/eabf9967.full" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">Science Advances</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">In Loreto, people eat fish at least once a day, or
about 52 kilograms (115 pounds) of fish per year, and rely on fish as a major
source of protein, fatty acids and essential vitamins and minerals such as iron
and calcium.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">“If fish decline, the quality of the diet will
decline,” the study’s senior co-author, Shahid Naeem, director of Columbia
University’s Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability told </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://news.climate.columbia.edu/?p=91586&shareadraft=baba91586_60903e7d374f9" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">Columbia Climate School</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">. “Things are definitely declining now, and they could be on the path to
crashing eventually.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><img border="0" width="1920" height="2560" alt="A fishmonger processes a dorado catfish (Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii) in the Belén Market in Iquitos, Peru. This fish is long distant migrant that is vulnerable to overfishing and dam development. Photo by Sebastian Heilpern."></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">To assess the region’s fish, researchers set out to
the early morning markets. The study’s lead author, then-Columbia Ph.D. student
Sebastian Heilpern, visited fishing docks and ports at 3:30 am, as well as two
major retail markets in the towns of Belén and Iquitos later in the morning. On
those morning excursions, Heilpern and another student bought a few samples of
every fish species they could find. In the end, they found 56 out of around 60
of the region’s known food species.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">“I like to imagine the field work going a bit like
playing Pokemon Go,” Heilpern told Mongabay. “Like any ecological community,
catches are dominated by a handful of species and then have a long tail of rare
ones, and it quickly came down to getting those rare ones.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">After making his morning purchases, Heilpern shipped
the fish on ice to a lab in Lima, Peru where the tissues were analyzed for
protein, fat, and minerals. This data was compared to the probability of that
species surviving ongoing environmental degradation. The researchers then ran
scenarios of how people’s diets would be affected by the loss of specific fish
species.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">In Loreto, fishers have been catching less large
migratory fish species, which are being replaced by smaller fish. Although
protein levels are roughly the same, smaller fish contain more omega-3 fatty
acids but less iron and zinc, overall—an issue in a region where people already
have high rates of anemia and malnutrition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><img border="0" width="2560" height="1920" alt="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/05/28023327/Community-Landing-scaled.jpg"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">A fisherman
pre-processes fish with help from a local boy before selling his catch in a
community along the Ucayali river in Loreto Peru.  The boy is holding a
boquichico (Prochilodus nigricans), a common but declining migratory fish
species.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">This begs the question, why can’t people just eat
different foods? Inland communities are already transitioning toward eating more
farmed fish and chicken, but these foods may not be an adequate replacement for
the range of nutrients these communities get from a diverse diet of wild fish.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">In another recent </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00242-8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">study</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">, Heilpern and
colleagues found that farmed substitutions can undermine human nutrition,
exacerbating iron deficiencies and limiting essential fatty acid supplies.
Farming is also harder on the environment, requiring more energy input and
generating pollution in a system that is already stressed. Additionally, farmed
fish and chicken may cost more.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">“Inland fish are fundamental for nutrition in many
low-income and food-deficit countries, and of course landlocked countries,”
John Valbo Jørgensen, an expert on inland fisheries with the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization told </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://news.climate.columbia.edu/?p=91586&shareadraft=baba91586_60903e7d374f9" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">Columbia Climate School</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">. “Many significant inland fisheries, including those of Peru, take place
in remote areas with poor infrastructure and limited inputs. It will not be
feasible to replace those fisheries with farmed animals including fish.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><img border="0" width="1364" height="1122" alt="A landing representing one night's fishing effort in the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area in Loreto, Peru. From left to right, species are: palometa (Characiformes: Mylossoma duriventre), doncella (Siluriformes: Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum), three boquichicos (Characiformes: Prochilodus nigricans), palometa, two sardinas (Characiformes: Triportheus sp.) and fasaco (Characiformes: Hoplias malabricus). The ruler is in centimeters. Photo by Sebastian Heilpern"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">“I think the main, big-picture message from the paper
is how critical diversity in our food supply is for delivering the range of
nutrients required for a healthy diet,” said Ruth DeFries, a professor at
Columbia University and one of the authors of the study in <i>Science
Advances</i> told Mongabay. And that diversity is under threat.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">According to the World Wildlife Fund, one-third of
global freshwater fish species are </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/freshwater_practice/the_world_s_forgotten_fishes/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">threatened with extinction</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">, and 80 species are already known to be extinct, Kevin Krajick reports for </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://news.climate.columbia.edu/?p=91586&shareadraft=baba91586_60903e7d374f9" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">Columbia Climate School</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Freshwater biodiversity is threatened by overfishing;
dam development, which blocks the passage of large, migratory species;
deforestation; and pollution from sources such as agriculture, urbanization,
and mining. “Add onto these factors climate change,” Heilpern told Mongabay,
“and you have a system that, barring major changes, will be stressed.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Preserving biodiversity is not only a goal of
conservation, Heilpern notes, “but also a means towards sustainable fisheries
and food security…Conserving freshwater biodiversity can help achieve aquatic
food production and maintain nutrient supplies in places where people are highly
dependent on them.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Ultimately, the researchers say, protecting fisheries
will require investing in practices and policies that protect key freshwater
habitats, maintain the connectivity of rivers and streams and enact temporary
moratoriums on the capture of overharvested species.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">A passenger and cargo-carrying ferry is docked in the
port of Iquitos, along the Amazon River. These ferries are the main conduits
bringing fish from distant locations in the region and supplying much of the ciy
of Iquitios. Photo by Sebastian Heilpern</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Although the study in </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/22/eabf9967.full" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">Science Advances</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"> focused on regional fish, other wild foods such as plants, insects,
and bushmeat are also an important source of nutrition across the globe,
particularly for Indigenous, rural, and low-income urban people.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">“Regulations and public health policies need to
consider biodiversity’s vital role in sustaining nutritional benefits for over
2 billion people dependent on wild foods across the globe,” the authors
write. “Biodiversity is notably absent from global and regional policies
linking wild foods with food security.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">“Only when biodiversity is valued alongside harvested
biomass and revenue will people be able to secure and sustain the full set of
nutritional benefits provided by wild foods.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Citation:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Heilpern, S., DeFries, R., Fiorella, K., Flecker, A.,
Sethi, S.A., Uriarte, M., Naeem, S. (2021). Declining diversity of wild-caught
species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk. <i>Science Advances</i>,
7: eabf9967. DOI: </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/22/eabf9967.full" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(69,170,232);text-decoration-line:none">10.1126/sciadv.abf9967</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)">Banner image</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"> of boy and fish on the Ucayali River in Loreto Peru by Sebastian
Heilpern.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(41,43,44)"></span></p>

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