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FUNDED: Baby Sawfish Rescue Mission


Critically endangered sawfish need our urgent help

Fund a unique life saving mission to locate and rescue Critically Endangered young largetooth sawfish trapped in drying billabongs.

Largetooth sawfish ‘pups’ are born at river mouths and spend the first 4-5 years of life in freshwater rivers and floodplain billabongs before migrating back to the ocean. However, these juvenile sawfish become trapped in the drying billabongs in the dry season as floodwaters recede and waterholes dry up. If not rescued these animals perish.

Northern Australia is one of the last strongholds left on the planet for sawfish. We must protect the species.

AMCS, in a partnership with the Northern Land Council’s Malak Malak Rangers and Charles Darwin University (CDU), is on a unique mission to locate and rescue Critically Endangered young largetooth sawfish trapped in drying billabongs and release them to free flowing waters.

We need $29,000 for a 2022 mission to save critically endangered sawfish trapped in drying billabongs.

The next mission is scheduled to investigate rescue locations in July and rescue patrols towards the end of the dry season in August to October 2022.

You can help save baby sawfish from a terrible fate and protect a critically endangered species, by funding our Sawfish Rescue Mission.

Donate today to make this mission possible .

Your donation will expand the mission in 2022, and achieve three key goals…

Rescue Largetooth Sawfish.

Last year the mission saved 17 sawfish and we aim to rescue many more this year. This is a significant number rescued for a species assessed as Critically Endangered in Australia.

Fund On The Ground Science.

Your gift will ensure practical hands on science tagging and tracking the rescued sawfish. Results will provide unique insights into the daily lives and behaviors of Critically Endangered sawfish that will improve the conservation of the species.

Save More Sawfish.

To expand the mission and rescue more Critically Endangered sawfish, we will fund the additional scoping of billabongs along the Roper River to expand rescue missions and save more sawfish in the Northern Territory.

Your contributions will help fund …

$15

will sponsor 10km of a vital scoping mission searching for additional billabongs to expand the rescue mission. We need to raise $2,000 to invest in a 1,300km journey investigating additional rescue sites along the Roper River.

$453

Will buy a specialised acoustic tag to tag and track the sawfish rescued. We need to raise $19,995 to fund 15 tags and 3 receivers for the next mission on the Daly River.

$2,500

Will fund the construction of a second specially designed transport tank to safely transport the rescued sawfish from the drying billabongs to safe waters and expand the rescue mission in 2022.

Why back AMCS?

Northern Australia is one of the last strongholds left on the planet for sawfish. AMCS are proud and delighted to be partnering with the Rangers and CDU on these important missions.

The partnership with AMCS will support the rescues and the work of CDU scientist Dr Peter Kyne to monitor the health and survival rates of the rescued sawfish.

This vital work has so far seen the Malak Malak Rangers rescue 75 largetooth sawfish in the past decade. A significant number for a Critically Endangered species. With your support backing AMCS we can continue to ensure these missions go ahead each year.

 

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