Largetooth sawfish are some of the world’s rarest and most endangered fish.
They use their sensitive snouts to detect the heartbeats of their prey. Baby sawfish are called pups – they have special gel over their sharp saws to protect their mums while they’re being born!
But these prehistoric fish are tangled up in modern-day environmental damage, and now they’re critically endangered.
Will you lodge a missing creature alert with your local Member of Parliament? Tell them we need strong national environment laws to protect the places and wildlife we love – and ask them to raise this with their party leader.
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Please have the courage and compassion to say something about the problems of our animals disappearing. Talk with other politicians about what they hope their great grand children will be able to enjoy in life.
On World Environment Day, we demand far greater protection of the natural world, through stronger environmental laws.
I don’t want the earth to lose this creature
Humans
The only kind
Destroying our planet
Leaving devastation behind
Guilty
How unique is this creature. Once it’s gone that uniqueness is lost to us forever.
See previous alert re Palm Cockatoo
Largetooth sawfish are some of the world’s rarest and most endangered fish.
They use their sensitive snouts to detect the heartbeats of their prey. Baby sawfish are called pups – they have special gel over their sharp saws to protect their mums while they’re being born!
But these prehistoric fish are tangled up in modern-day environmental damage, and now they’re critically endangered.
Every Australian should be responsible for protecting our vulnerable wild life from the threat of extinction from the greedy commercial animals that operate our mining and logging industries.
What a shame we have brought this prehistoric creature to pre-extinction. Mining is causing the largetooth sawfish to lose habitat. Any chance you might want to help us do something about it????
Please use your position to demand strong new laws for our environment. This is urgent and important, these creatures won’t come back once they’re gone.
I want those that come after us to experience the wildlife that is still here and hopefully will be in 50 years.
Humans have been here for such a short time and yet we have caused so much damage. Isn’t it time to start reversing that trend?
Largetooth sawfish are some of the world’s rarest and most endangered fish.
They use their sensitive snouts to detect the heartbeats of their prey. Baby sawfish are called pups – they have special gel over their sharp saws to protect their mums while they’re being born!
But these prehistoric fish are tangled up in modern-day environmental damage, and now they’re critically endangered.
Largetooth Sawfish are an endangered and protected species. As they are declining in numbers as I saw on a documentary recently. There should be far stricter restrictions on fishing for these creatures.
From Isaac Collings-McLoughlin
Humans are supposed to be smart. Instead of being responsible for making plants, animals & entire ecosystems extinct, we should be PROTECTING them instead. It’s time to step up for the future of the planet.
Gamefishing people catch them. That is why they
Will be extinct. The same as the ocean around
Tasmania. A great trophy.