Freshwater hell: scientists race to save endangered fish from bushfire ash

A desperate rescue mission to the only known habitat of the stocky galaxias, in Kosciuszko national park, may be the last hope for the speciesA little more than two weeks ago, Mark Lintermans headed into the high country to give some fish electric shocks and save them from extinction.The fish in question was the stocky galaxias (Galaxias tantangara), an endemic freshwater species that grows to about 10cm and is known to live wild only in a three-kilometre stretch of Tantangara Creek, in the Kosciuszko national park. Continue reading...