by AMAZONAS Magazine | Aug 29, 2024 | Freshwater, News & Notes
The Redtail Shark (Epalzeorhynchos bicolor) is not listed under the ESA. This allows the species, which is categorized as critically endangered by the IUCN due to habitat degradation, to be bred in large numbers on fish farms to meet the demand of the aquarium trade....
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 28, 2024 | Freshwater, News & Notes
On January 24th, 2024, the US Fish And Wildlife Service published this press release announcing the findings of a 10 species review. via US FWS FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed its 90-day findings on petitions to list 10 species...
by Matt Pedersen | Mar 4, 2021 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
Red Arowana or Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus) is one of the world’s most expensive cultivated ornamental fishes, and is an endangered species. Image copyright Japan’ Fireworks/Shutterstock. New federal legislation before Congress would change the US...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 29, 2019 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via the Center for Biological Diversity Critically Endangered Spring Pygmy Sunfish Gains 1,330 Acres, Six Stream Miles of Protected Habitat Tiny Fish Threatened by Urbanization, Agriculture, Pollution May 29, 2019 – HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— Following a lawsuit filed by the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 23, 2016 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
CITES CoP17, Johannesburg, South Africa, starts tomorrow. This is the 17th Conference of Parties meeting to be held, a meeting which has been held roughly every 2-3 years since the first CoP in 1976. CoP meetings are the time when changes to CITES listings for species...