Jordan battles to save rare tiny Dead Sea carp ...Middle East

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Fifa NATURE RESERVE, JORDAN: Jordan is racing against time to save a tiny rare fish from extinction as falling water levels partly triggered by global warming threaten to dry up its last habitat.The Dead Sea toothcarp - scientific name Aphanius dispar richardsoni - has been on the red list of the International Union for Conversation of Nature since 2014.The IUCN warns that the "exploitation of spring waters and climate change" are major threats facing the four-centimetre-long, silver-coloured fish."This fish is threatened with extinction at the global level. It is endemic here and does not exist elsewhere," said Ibrahim Mahasneh, the manager of the fish's last home, the Fifa Nature Reserve.L

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