Crowd-funding helps save endangered Australian fish

摘要

One of Australia's rarest freshwater fish species is being brought back fromthe brink of extinction through a crowd-funded program that researchers hope will secure the species' survival.The Running River Rainbow-fish (Melanotaenia sp) - not to be confused with rainbow trout - is native to just a 13-km stretch of the river of the same name, in the upper Burdekin catchment near Paluma. That's about 80km northwest of the township of Towns-ville in northern Queensland.