Team rescues endangered sawfish pups

Lydia Lynch
Updated September 26 2017 - 8:56am, first published September 22 2017 - 10:59am
CDU research associate Brittany Finucci releases a largetooth sawfish pup into the Daly River.
CDU research associate Brittany Finucci releases a largetooth sawfish pup into the Daly River.

Indigenous rangers and Charles Darwin University researchers spent five days trudging barefoot in mud to save almost 40 largetooth sawfish pups as their nursery dried out on the edge of floodplains near the Daly River.

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Lydia Lynch

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