Tiny freshwater Snowy Mountains fish faces extinction

The Yalmy galaxias is ‘on the verge of disappearing forever’ and Labor on the brink of failing to meet its zero extinctions target

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Even on its best days, the Yalmy galaxias is hard to find. The small, native freshwater fish is only known to live in a couple of tributaries of the Snowy River in remote and mountainous East Gippsland.

It was last seen in March 2023, when a government survey found 20 survivors. Since then? Nobody knows.