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Conservation Science
Michele Thieme
Freshwater Conservation Biologist
Areas of Expertise: freshwater biodiversity conservation planning, Africa freshwater systems, freshwater fish distribution and natural history.
Michele Thieme
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Michele Thieme is a freshwater conservation biologist for WWF's Conservation Science Program. The focus of her work is supporting the efforts of the WWF network to maintain freshwater biodiversity. She has worked on projects as diverse as assisting with a restoration plan for the Rio Grand Basin to limiting introductions of non-native fish via aquaculture programs. However, the main focus of her work has been on conservation planning for freshwater systems. She recently led an assessment of priorities for freshwater conservation in Africa, working with African freshwater specialists to synthesize and analyze freshwater biodiversity data from across the continent. She also has assisted in designing conservation plans for the freshwater biodiversity of the Congo Basin, the Niger Basin, and Lake Malawi. Currently she is working on a project to delineate the freshwater ecoregions of the world and assisting the Congo Basin, Amur-Heilong, and Southeast Rivers in their work. For her M.S. degree from the University of Arizona, Michele studied the spawning ecology of native fish in the Colorado River and she has an undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Virginia.
Email: michele.thieme@wwfus.org
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