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 […]
This week, a Killifish conservation initiative based in Oaxaca, Mexico, received a £500 grant from Freshwater Life Project for the purpose of reproducing a new species of killifish in captivity as part of a conservation program. The Endemic Killifish Conservation Initiative “Rescando a Profundulus oaxacae“ run by program manager Victor Manuel Ortiz Cruz, has previously […]
Following on from the hugely successful Fishkeeping Extravaganza event where several fishkeeping associations came together to deliver a collaborative aquarium convention last month, the British Killifish Association has pledged a donation of £500 towards a newly formed global fund dedicated to offering grants towards killifish conservation. The fund, known as the Mick Agnew Killifish Conservation […]
Location: Holiday Inn South Normanton, Carter Lane East, South Normanton DE55 2EH Alfreton M1, Junction 28. Time: Doors open at 9am Fee: £5 in advance from killis.org.uk or £7 on the day at the door (limited numbers) Information: In this one-hour talk, Chris Englezou will share his experiences getting into fishkeeping, and his personal journey […]
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 […]