Department Aquatic Ecology

Together with climate change, biodiversity decline is the most pressing environmental crisis the world is facing. One factor hampering our society’s ability to stop and reverse the loss of biodiversity is insufficient exchange of knowledge and information between science and practice, called the science-practice gap. Bridging this gap is the purpose of the “Translational Centre Biodiversity Conservation” (TCBC), a Joint Initiative funded by the ETH Board within the Strategic Area “Engagement and Dialogue with Society”. It is developed by three ETH Domain institutions (WSL, Eawag, ETH Zürich) with partners from cantonal authorities, private consultancies and environmental organisations. Our goal is to provide conservation professionals with synthesized information on topics relevant to their daily work.