3 years, 6 months ago

How a rescue program led by researchers and rangers is saving critically endangered sawfish in the Top End

Bumping along a dried-up floodplain, there's a strange splashing noise coming from the back of the four-wheel drive. Since 2012, a group of Indigenous rangers and a researcher have saved more than 70 sawfish through rescue missions in the Daly River region, south of Darwin. Rescue program celebrates 10 years The sawfish rescue program is believed to be the only one of its kind in the world, and is run by the Northern Land Council's Malak Malak ranger group and Charles Darwin University, with support from the Australian Marine Conservation Society. "Given the critically endangered status of the species, this is the helping hand it needs now … with all the threats it's facing from fishing activities, water extraction, from loss of habitat," he said. Peter Van Wyk from the Northern Land Council said the rescues would continue well into the future and were a positive aspect of the rangers' work, which otherwise involves removing feral animals.

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Sawfish used to be plentiful around Australia's coastline, but their numbers have dropped off a cliff
5 years, 5 months ago

Sawfish used to be plentiful around Australia's coastline, but their numbers have dropped off a cliff

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