The Desert Fish Habitat Partnership
Freshwater conservation is set to become one of the most pressing environmental problems of the coming decades. A look at one partnership working on it in the American desert.
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Freshwater conservation is set to become one of the most pressing environmental problems of the coming decades. A look at one partnership working on it in the American desert.
Freshwater habitats hold 0.3% of the world's water and almost half of its known fish species. The Freshwater Fish Specialist Group on what it intends to do about that.
Matt Ford introduces the Aphanius killifishes of Spain: Eurasian, attractive, seldom discussed, and a long way from the African and American species that define the group.
Ichthyologist John P. Sullivan on Africhthy, the collaborative research portal he has built for the freshwater fishes of Africa.
Barely kept and difficult to maintain, the pupfishes of the genus Cyprinodon are of outsized interest to evolutionary biologists. Their isolated desert waters are the reason.