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A quarter of freshwater animals threatened with extinction, finds major new study

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par Iwan Jones, Freshwater Ecologist and Head of the River Communities Group, Queen Mary University of London

For far too long, the decline in the biodiversity of our rivers and lakes has been out of sight and out of mind. As a freshwater ecologist I have long felt frustrated as conservation and research is dominated by land and sea species, even though our rivers, lakes, ponds and other wetlands host a hugely disproportionate amount of the world’s biodiversity in their relatively small area.

The first comprehensive assessment of the risk of extinction of freshwater species, now published in the journal Nature,…

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