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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Greenfield

Quarter of world’s freshwater fish at risk of extinction, according to assessment

A giant catfish on a fishing boat.
A Mekong giant catfish in Tonlé Sap, Cambodia. Photograph: Zeb Hogan/EPA

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.

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