A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR FRESHWATER FISHES Emergency Recovery Plan for freshwater biodiversity In 2021, governments may have their last chance to chart a new course that could reverse the loss of nature and put the world back onto a sustainable path. Countries have to seize the opportunity and agree on an ambitious and implementable new framework to tackle the loss of habitats and species at the conference of the Convention of Biological Diversity - a framework that must, for the first time, pay just as much attention to protecting and restoring our freshwater life support systems as the world's forests and oceans. The World's Forgotten Fishes page 42