Dear members of the Parosphromenus Project.
It is time for a newsletter, - and the last couple of months has been exciting and inspiring. Read our newsletter below for a short summery of what has been happening lately. We also in this Newsletter want to wish you all a merry Christmas, a Happy New Year - and a warm thank you to all who supports us.
The Parosphromenus Project is now also on facebook.
We wish to reach as many people as we can, - people who want to participate actively, people who symphatize with our cause.
We wish to connect with people in Malaysia, Indonesia and on Borneo, who are already doing great work trying to help and protect the nature, and habitats of endagered species of fish, of other animals, the biotopes, the peat swamps.
The time had come to be present on Facebook, and it has been a success.
In connection with the Facebook page, we also now has a group 'The Parosphromenus Project Group', which after only two months has 180 members.
This group has been lively and brought interesting news and debates.
We want to thank all who has joined the group and shown their support.
New friends as well as those who has been with us for a long time.
A warm thank you and welcome in particular to our new friends and contacts in Malaysia, and Indonesia, who has been sending us information and videos from the natural habitats.
In the future we will try to work on the Species articles so that for each species we will bring reports from the areas. We hope to slowly be able to build up an ongoing documentation for each habitiat of the species.
The first addition isP. harveyi where we now have uploaded a video report from Aidil Mohd Shameen.
New Contacts and new Inspirations
We hope in the nearest future that we may be able to help collect more structured information about different habitats, their status, threaths to certain species, and help document this though our homepage.
Thank you to many new connections in Malaysia, - not least Aidil Mohd Shameem, who has offered to help us survey in particular the biotopes of P. harveyi in Selangor.
Parosphromenus harveyi in the wild - Video by Aidil Mohd Shameen.
We thank 34 participants for reporting their stocks! Except forP. opaliosandP. gundawaniall species seem to be present. Although most of them were only reported by few keepers there is a magnificent rise in the otherwise rare speciesP. parvulus, P.ornaticaudaandP. sumatranus. The most popular species were reported most frequently as usual:P. bintanandP. linkei. But numbers of otherwise popularP. nagyihave dropped!
