Declining water quality threatens freshwater fish species with extinction
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 12:14
in Biology & Nature
Increasing urbanisation and more intensive farming are killing New Zealand's freshwater fish species by degrading water quality, says the author of a report published this week by the Ministry for the Environment.
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