Shade cloth and poisonous dust: how the red-finned blue-eye was brought back from the brink

Numbers of the Australian native fish have grown from 1,000 to 5,000 in eight years, and Queensland has now declared its habitat a special wildlife reserveSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityThe red-finned blue-eye is no longer Australia's rarest freshwater fish.The last of its tiny kind - all but bullied to extinction by gambusia, an invasive fish that grows to twice the size and eight times the body mass - were a few years ago confined to a lone artesian spring in outback Queensland. Continue reading...