Monni Böhm
@monnikaboom.bsky.social
Freshwater Conservation Coordinator at Indianapolis Zoo
Pacers & Fever 🏀 fan. Dog mum. Rugby obsessed.
she/her | Views are my own
Pacers & Fever 🏀 fan. Dog mum. Rugby obsessed.
she/her | Views are my own
I can't wait to start implementing this plan. It's such a pleasure to work with this group of people - musselheads are amongst the best!
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I can't wait to start implementing this plan. It's such a pleasure to work with this group of people - musselheads are amongst the best!
3. grow a community of practice in freshwater health and freshwater mussel conservation across AZA
4. develop and activate a resilient coordinated community to advance the conservation education and communication about freshwater mussels and healthy freshwater systems across AZA.
4. develop and activate a resilient coordinated community to advance the conservation education and communication about freshwater mussels and healthy freshwater systems across AZA.
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
3. grow a community of practice in freshwater health and freshwater mussel conservation across AZA
4. develop and activate a resilient coordinated community to advance the conservation education and communication about freshwater mussels and healthy freshwater systems across AZA.
4. develop and activate a resilient coordinated community to advance the conservation education and communication about freshwater mussels and healthy freshwater systems across AZA.
Over the next 3 years - we will:
1. develop a resilient network of organizations and individuals to advance the conservation of North American freshwater mussels
2. build the capacity of AZA partners to assess the conservation status and extinction risk of freshwater mussels (to be continued...)
1. develop a resilient network of organizations and individuals to advance the conservation of North American freshwater mussels
2. build the capacity of AZA partners to assess the conservation status and extinction risk of freshwater mussels (to be continued...)
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Over the next 3 years - we will:
1. develop a resilient network of organizations and individuals to advance the conservation of North American freshwater mussels
2. build the capacity of AZA partners to assess the conservation status and extinction risk of freshwater mussels (to be continued...)
1. develop a resilient network of organizations and individuals to advance the conservation of North American freshwater mussels
2. build the capacity of AZA partners to assess the conservation status and extinction risk of freshwater mussels (to be continued...)
🚨🚨🚨 Shell yeah!!!
Excited to announce that our first 3-year plan for our AZA SAFE program for North American Freshwater Mussels... HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!! 🙌
Excited to announce that our first 3-year plan for our AZA SAFE program for North American Freshwater Mussels... HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!! 🙌
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Shell yeah!!!
Excited to announce that our first 3-year plan for our AZA SAFE program for North American Freshwater Mussels... HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!! 🙌
Excited to announce that our first 3-year plan for our AZA SAFE program for North American Freshwater Mussels... HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!! 🙌
13/ Other stuff happened... but first of all, time to recharge our batteries so we can get on with all the work that came out of the Congress... here the only other view I had of Abu Dhabi all week long, from the hotel...
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
13/ Other stuff happened... but first of all, time to recharge our batteries so we can get on with all the work that came out of the Congress... here the only other view I had of Abu Dhabi all week long, from the hotel...
12/ The Congress also marks the end of an era, with a new SSC Chair voted in. Thank you to Jon Paul Rodrigues & his Chairs Office team for helping & guiding us over the past... eight?... years & making our jobs so much fun!
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
12/ The Congress also marks the end of an era, with a new SSC Chair voted in. Thank you to Jon Paul Rodrigues & his Chairs Office team for helping & guiding us over the past... eight?... years & making our jobs so much fun!
11/ "Micro"-meeting with the chair of the IUCN SSC Sturgeon Specialist Group, who dropped in for a quick visit! The conservation "fun" never stops for sturgeon folk & this is why: www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/st...
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
11/ "Micro"-meeting with the chair of the IUCN SSC Sturgeon Specialist Group, who dropped in for a quick visit! The conservation "fun" never stops for sturgeon folk & this is why: www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/st...
10/ Interlude II: more blasts from the past at Congress!
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
10/ Interlude II: more blasts from the past at Congress!
9/ Learning about the IUCN Freshwater Strategy - can't wait to see the document for wider consultation!
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
9/ Learning about the IUCN Freshwater Strategy - can't wait to see the document for wider consultation!
8/ Great job to the Centers for Species Survival Freshwater & Trees for the great reception at the @reversethered.bsky.social Pavilion on integrated conservation actions for freshwater & tree species! Great speakers assembled! 💪
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
8/ Great job to the Centers for Species Survival Freshwater & Trees for the great reception at the @reversethered.bsky.social Pavilion on integrated conservation actions for freshwater & tree species! Great speakers assembled! 💪
7/ Interlude I: some of the blasts from the past met at Congress ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
7/ Interlude I: some of the blasts from the past met at Congress ❤️
6/ Day 3: I got to technically support the session on dams! Indianapolis Zoo & @protectspecies.bsky.social got a shoutout, too! I also didn't break anything!
Shoutout to important Motion 147 "Protecting ecosystems and riverine communities from the impacts of hydropower...", passed at Congress! 🎉🎉🎉
Shoutout to important Motion 147 "Protecting ecosystems and riverine communities from the impacts of hydropower...", passed at Congress! 🎉🎉🎉
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
6/ Day 3: I got to technically support the session on dams! Indianapolis Zoo & @protectspecies.bsky.social got a shoutout, too! I also didn't break anything!
Shoutout to important Motion 147 "Protecting ecosystems and riverine communities from the impacts of hydropower...", passed at Congress! 🎉🎉🎉
Shoutout to important Motion 147 "Protecting ecosystems and riverine communities from the impacts of hydropower...", passed at Congress! 🎉🎉🎉
5/ Day 2: fewer technical glitches, equal amounts of fun! We hosted a podcast session on the Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment, from a hot sauna pod (which explains my facial expression). Included: a shoutout to #aquaticfungi, freshwater #sponges, plus of course freshwater #molluscs - shell yeah!
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
5/ Day 2: fewer technical glitches, equal amounts of fun! We hosted a podcast session on the Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment, from a hot sauna pod (which explains my facial expression). Included: a shoutout to #aquaticfungi, freshwater #sponges, plus of course freshwater #molluscs - shell yeah!
4/ The Aquascapes session team! Shoutout to the team for dealing marvelously well with any of the unforeseen technical issues thrown at us! ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
4/ The Aquascapes session team! Shoutout to the team for dealing marvelously well with any of the unforeseen technical issues thrown at us! ❤️
3/ Day 1 of the WCC: Opening Ceremony, co-moderating a session on springs & co-presenting with @coraliejp.bsky.social on the need for an Aquascapes approach to aquatic conservation. A great start towards implementing Motions 016 & 020 - which are now Resolutions! iucncongress2025.org/assembly/mot...
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
3/ Day 1 of the WCC: Opening Ceremony, co-moderating a session on springs & co-presenting with @coraliejp.bsky.social on the need for an Aquascapes approach to aquatic conservation. A great start towards implementing Motions 016 & 020 - which are now Resolutions! iucncongress2025.org/assembly/mot...
2/ We started a day early with an in-person meeting of Centers for Species Survival, exchanging experiences, learning about projects & promoting collaboration. Plus having a lot of fun with friends old & new!
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
2/ We started a day early with an in-person meeting of Centers for Species Survival, exchanging experiences, learning about projects & promoting collaboration. Plus having a lot of fun with friends old & new!
1/ IUCN World Conservation Congress - in a few pictures! It was a whirlwind of activities & I am still trying to digest everything, plus recharge my social batteries 😆 #IUCNcongress #wearessc
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
1/ IUCN World Conservation Congress - in a few pictures! It was a whirlwind of activities & I am still trying to digest everything, plus recharge my social batteries 😆 #IUCNcongress #wearessc
At the IUCN #WorldConservationCongress in Abu Dhabi (or online) & not sure which session to attend? Let us help!
Join us to hear about dams, freshwater conservation & IUCN SSC-WCPA Inter-Commission Dams Task Force!
📆 October 11 2025
⏲️ 10:00-11:30 Gulf Standard Time
🗺️ Session Room 6 & online!
Join us to hear about dams, freshwater conservation & IUCN SSC-WCPA Inter-Commission Dams Task Force!
📆 October 11 2025
⏲️ 10:00-11:30 Gulf Standard Time
🗺️ Session Room 6 & online!
October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
At the IUCN #WorldConservationCongress in Abu Dhabi (or online) & not sure which session to attend? Let us help!
Join us to hear about dams, freshwater conservation & IUCN SSC-WCPA Inter-Commission Dams Task Force!
📆 October 11 2025
⏲️ 10:00-11:30 Gulf Standard Time
🗺️ Session Room 6 & online!
Join us to hear about dams, freshwater conservation & IUCN SSC-WCPA Inter-Commission Dams Task Force!
📆 October 11 2025
⏲️ 10:00-11:30 Gulf Standard Time
🗺️ Session Room 6 & online!
Huge shout out to our "stick finders" Luke Jacobus (also an Indy Zoo grant recipient) & Sergio Henriques (previous Conservation Coordinator at the Global Center for Species Survival). I am just sad it wasn't one of my sticks that found fame! 😂
October 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Huge shout out to our "stick finders" Luke Jacobus (also an Indy Zoo grant recipient) & Sergio Henriques (previous Conservation Coordinator at the Global Center for Species Survival). I am just sad it wasn't one of my sticks that found fame! 😂
Luring you in with a sunny photo of Tampa!
We had a fun few days already @ AZA Annual Meeting. We're flexing our muscles for North American FW mussels: great attendance @ SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) session & roundtable, our poster is up & ready to go for tonight's session.
Shell yeah!
We had a fun few days already @ AZA Annual Meeting. We're flexing our muscles for North American FW mussels: great attendance @ SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) session & roundtable, our poster is up & ready to go for tonight's session.
Shell yeah!
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Luring you in with a sunny photo of Tampa!
We had a fun few days already @ AZA Annual Meeting. We're flexing our muscles for North American FW mussels: great attendance @ SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) session & roundtable, our poster is up & ready to go for tonight's session.
Shell yeah!
We had a fun few days already @ AZA Annual Meeting. We're flexing our muscles for North American FW mussels: great attendance @ SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) session & roundtable, our poster is up & ready to go for tonight's session.
Shell yeah!
We're at the Association of Zoos & Aquariums Annual Conference in Tampa, FL! Spent some time with awesome musselheads to spread the word on our AZA SAFE plan for North American FW Mussels! Great attendance for 8am session! Thanks all for coming & watch this space for more to come! 💪💪💪
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We're at the Association of Zoos & Aquariums Annual Conference in Tampa, FL! Spent some time with awesome musselheads to spread the word on our AZA SAFE plan for North American FW Mussels! Great attendance for 8am session! Thanks all for coming & watch this space for more to come! 💪💪💪
📣 📣 📣 Are you going to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Annual Conference in Tampa FL? Are you a musselhead or interested in becoming one?
Then join us for one/several/all of the MANY sessions featuring AZA SAFE North American Freshwater Mussel!
Then join us for one/several/all of the MANY sessions featuring AZA SAFE North American Freshwater Mussel!
September 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
📣 📣 📣 Are you going to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Annual Conference in Tampa FL? Are you a musselhead or interested in becoming one?
Then join us for one/several/all of the MANY sessions featuring AZA SAFE North American Freshwater Mussel!
Then join us for one/several/all of the MANY sessions featuring AZA SAFE North American Freshwater Mussel!
Many freshwater migratory fishes are culturally of huge significance, and vitally important to food security, identity, and livelihoods of Indigenous and rural communities around the world. But they are also in trouble. This group of wonderful people wants to change this!
August 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Many freshwater migratory fishes are culturally of huge significance, and vitally important to food security, identity, and livelihoods of Indigenous and rural communities around the world. But they are also in trouble. This group of wonderful people wants to change this!
We had a wonderful time at the migratory fish workshop hosted by our colleagues from University of Nevada Reno, right on the shores of Lake Tahoe. We discussed migratory fish, databases, CMS context and Swimways. Watch this space for some cool outputs!
July 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We had a wonderful time at the migratory fish workshop hosted by our colleagues from University of Nevada Reno, right on the shores of Lake Tahoe. We discussed migratory fish, databases, CMS context and Swimways. Watch this space for some cool outputs!
Sometimes, it's difficult to keep focused on your contribution to online panel discussions when you also have this little weirdo in your line of sight.... 🤣😂
Great 1st partnership meeting, @shoalorg.bsky.social, very inspirational for me, yet tiring for the dog!
Great 1st partnership meeting, @shoalorg.bsky.social, very inspirational for me, yet tiring for the dog!
June 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Sometimes, it's difficult to keep focused on your contribution to online panel discussions when you also have this little weirdo in your line of sight.... 🤣😂
Great 1st partnership meeting, @shoalorg.bsky.social, very inspirational for me, yet tiring for the dog!
Great 1st partnership meeting, @shoalorg.bsky.social, very inspirational for me, yet tiring for the dog!