A lifeline for the Lake Acıgöl killifish. Fighting to stop an extinction before it’s too late

Last month, the Freshwater Life Project steering committee, voted unanimously in favour of supporting a project to help prevent the inevitable extinction of a critically endangered killifish from Turkey. The funding provided, enabled a team of researchers at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, to establish the very first captive-breeding population of the critically endangered Lake […]

New research finds three populations of one Cypriot fish species to each be unique!

Newly published work first initiated in 2018 has revealed something very special about the Cyprus killifish, Aphanius fasciatus. The Freshwater Life Project team collaborated with researchers based at The Universita di Pisa, in Italy to analyse specimens of the Cyprus killifish with the aim of determining how closely related they are to their conspecifics from […]