http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/saving-one-of-the-rarest-fish-in-the-world-in-the-middle-of-queensland-20170427-gvuc1x.html
A herculean effort is under way to save the world's last population of a critically endangered fish found only in the middle of Queensland's most arid country.
In the state's dry interior, 140 kilometres north-east of Longreach, lies Edgbaston Reserve, the last known home of one of Australia's rarest fish, the red-finned blue-eye.
The reserve, sited on little more than 8000 hectares, is home to dozens of species of plants, animals and invertebrates found nowhere else in the world.
And the red-finned blue-eye lives in a spring found in a landscape shaded in brown hues and decorated with the pastel greens of saltbush, spinifex and gum trees.
It may appear desolate yet the extreme landscape bristles with life - an iconic Australian collection of flora and fauna.
The focus of a major conservation push is the small desert-dwelling fish, which can survive in artesian springs in two centimetres of water.
