From Reuters 12.11.23
A quarter of freshwater fish risk extinction
About a quarter of all freshwater fish species are at risk of extinction due to threats from climate change and pollution, the latest Red List of Threatened Species showed on Monday.
One of the main threats is the havoc climate change is wreaking on water cycles, such as falling water levels and rising sea levels causing seawater to move up rivers, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which compiles the list several times a year.
In its first exhaustive analysis of freshwater fish, IUCN said that over 3,000 species out of nearly 15,000 were at risk.
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From The Guardian 12.11.23
Quarter of world’s freshwater fish at risk of extinction, according to assessment
Nearly a quarter of the world’s freshwater fish are at risk of extinction due to global heating, overfishing and pollution, according to an expert assessment.
From the large-toothed Lake Turkana robber in Kenya to the Mekong giant catfish in south-east Asia, many of the world’s freshwater fish are at risk of disappearing, the first International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list assessment of the category has found.
Nearly a fifth of all threatened freshwater species are affected by climate change, from impacts such as falling water levels, shifting seasons and seawater moving up rivers. Of the assessed species, 3,086 out of 14,898 were at risk of vanishing.
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From Princeton Daily Clarion 12.11.23
Freshwater fish swim into trouble as climate change increases threat: IUCN
"Climate change is menacing the diversity of life our planet harbours and undermining nature's capacity to meet basic human needs," IUCN Director General Grethel Aguilar said in a statement.
Atlantic salmon experienced a 23 percent decrease between 2006 and 2020, rising along the list from of "least concern" to "near threatened".
Global warming is affecting "all stages" of its lifecycle –- reducing prey, allowing invasive species to expand, and increasing deaths of young salmon due to water pollution linked mostly to logging and agriculture, IUCN said in a statement.
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