New assessment shows 74% of Sri Lanka’s freshwater fish threatened with extinction

Mongabay
Jul 31, 2020, 6:35 am261 pts
COLOMBO — Surveys carried out in the early 1980s in the many reservoirs in Sri Lanka’s dry zone showed abundant populations of the red-fin labeo (Labeo lankae), an endemic species of frewshwater fish. Reports indicated the fish was also available at local fish markets. But decades later, it has disappeared…

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New assessment shows 74% of Sri Lanka’s freshwater fish threatened with extinction

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