Read the imaginative ways of saving this little fish

>>Edgbaston’s springs and the Great Artesian Basin owe their existence to the prehistoric Eromanga Sea that covered much of arid inland Australia about 110 million years ago and laid down the sediment that capped the basin.

Having been isolated in the middle of the outback for millions of years, many plants, invertebrates and fish in Edgbaston’s springs have evolved into species found nowhere else on the planet, making the springs ‘museums of evolution’.

Cue a special little fish that Bush Heritage has been working particularly hard to protect: the Red-finned Blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis).
These translucent slips of silver with their baby blue eyes and vermillion fins are one of the world’s rarest fish.

First recorded by Europeans in 1990, Red-finned Blue-eyes are only found on Edgbaston Reserve and are listed as ‘critically endangered’.<<

https://www.bushheritage.org.au/newsletters/2019/winter/museums-of-evolution?utm_source=BBCRM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=win19-news&utm_term=bushtracks&utm_content=std

PermeateFree said:

Read the imaginative ways of saving this little fish

>>Edgbaston’s springs and the Great Artesian Basin owe their existence to the prehistoric Eromanga Sea that covered much of arid inland Australia about 110 million years ago and laid down the sediment that capped the basin.

Having been isolated in the middle of the outback for millions of years, many plants, invertebrates and fish in Edgbaston’s springs have evolved into species found nowhere else on the planet, making the springs ‘museums of evolution’.

Cue a special little fish that Bush Heritage has been working particularly hard to protect: the Red-finned Blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis).
These translucent slips of silver with their baby blue eyes and vermillion fins are one of the world’s rarest fish.

First recorded by Europeans in 1990, Red-finned Blue-eyes are only found on Edgbaston Reserve and are listed as ‘critically endangered’.<<

https://www.bushheritage.org.au/newsletters/2019/winter/museums-of-evolution?utm_source=BBCRM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=win19-news&utm_term=bushtracks&utm_content=std

Can a few be moved and breed elsewhere and then placed in a few places to minimise the one area being destroyed

Cymek said:

PermeateFree said:

Read the imaginative ways of saving this little fish

>>Edgbaston’s springs and the Great Artesian Basin owe their existence to the prehistoric Eromanga Sea that covered much of arid inland Australia about 110 million years ago and laid down the sediment that capped the basin.

Having been isolated in the middle of the outback for millions of years, many plants, invertebrates and fish in Edgbaston’s springs have evolved into species found nowhere else on the planet, making the springs ‘museums of evolution’.

Cue a special little fish that Bush Heritage has been working particularly hard to protect: the Red-finned Blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis).
These translucent slips of silver with their baby blue eyes and vermillion fins are one of the world’s rarest fish.

First recorded by Europeans in 1990, Red-finned Blue-eyes are only found on Edgbaston Reserve and are listed as ‘critically endangered’.<<

https://www.bushheritage.org.au/newsletters/2019/winter/museums-of-evolution?utm_source=BBCRM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=win19-news&utm_term=bushtracks&utm_content=std

Can a few be moved and breed elsewhere and then placed in a few places to minimise the one area being destroyed

Yes. That’s what’s being done. From link:

But thanks to a three-part conservation approach, the Red-finned Blue-eye population has slowly begun to recover.

“Over the last decade Bush Heritage has worked to create new translocated populations, taking fish from the one remaining natural population and moving them into springs that are free from the Mosquitofish,” says Pippa.

The next step has been to surround the springs with fences of fine mesh that stop the Mosquitofish from entering the springs. But, most importantly, Bush Heritage has cracked the key to breeding Red-finned Blue-eye in captivity.