Quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction, conservationists warn

The study, which looked at freshwater animals including fish, was published in the journal Nature (Topiltzin Contreras-MacBeath/PA) -

Almost a quarter of freshwater creatures, from fish to dragonflies, are at a high risk of extinction worldwide, scientists have warned.

The global assessment of freshwater animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species evaluated the extinction risk of 23,496 freshwater species of fish, dragonflies, damselflies, crabs, crayfish and shrimp.