Experts in Jordan are pooling together to save fish

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Conservation experts in Jordan are trying to save a type of fish threatened with extinction.

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Staff at the Fifa Nature Reserve in Jordan are working hard to save the Dead Sea toothcarp fish which are threatened with extinction.
The fish live in humid and hot climates and could been seen in small numbers in streams flowing from a natural permanent spring.
This type of freshwater fish face extinction at the local and global levels, says environmental researcher Abdullah al-Oshoush.
The numbers of the toothcarp fish have decreased significantly in recent years due to a drop in the water level.
"As a result of the various uses of water and the existence of invasive species, this kind of fish became limited only to the Fifa Nature Reserve," al-Oshoush says.
A five-year plan is in motion to help rehabilitate the fish, says al-Oshoush, adding that the fish will be released "in the areas where it lived before".
For now, the fish's home is the Fifa Nature Reserve, which has a distinct nature because of its extremely low altitude.
"This gives it (the reserve) a number of advantages which allow it to monopolise some species in this region," says director of the reserve, Ibrahim Mahasneh.
As well as looking after this fish, experts at the nature reserve are also trying to conserve a type of spiny-tailed lizard.
With a tracking device attached to its back, conservationists are hoping to determine the lizard's range of movement and feeding areas throughout the various seasons.

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