Sawfish

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Sawfish

21st century status: Hyphenation

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Endangered sawfish and other fish in Florida are showing strange behaviors and dying because of environmental toxins. These toxins, produced by microalgae near the sea bottom, affect the neurological systems of fish.{{Cite news |last=Mazzei |first=Patricia |date=April 15, 2024 |title=What's Killing Endangered Sawfish in Florida? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/us/sawfish-florida-keys.html |work=The New York Times}}
Endangered sawfish and other fish in Florida are showing strange behaviors and dying because of environmental toxins. These toxins, produced by microalgae near the sea bottom, affect the neurological systems of fish.{{Cite news |last=Mazzei |first=Patricia |date=April 15, 2024 |title=What's Killing Endangered Sawfish in Florida? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/us/sawfish-florida-keys.html |work=The New York Times}}


====21st century status====
====21st-century status====
The combined range of the five sawfish species encompassed 90 countries, but today they have certainly disappeared entirely from 20 of these and possibly disappeared from several others. Many more have lost at least one of their species, leaving only one or two remaining. Of the five species of sawfish, three are critically endangered and two are endangered according to the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]]'s [[IUCN Red List|Red List of Threatened Species]].{{Cite news|date=2021-02-12|title='Hedge trimmer' fish facing global extinction|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56031151|access-date=2021-02-12}} The sawfish is now presumed extinct in 55 nations (including [[China]], [[Iraq]], [[Haiti]], [[Japan]], [[East Timor|Timor-Leste]], [[El Salvador]], [[Taiwan]], [[Djibouti]] and [[Brunei]]), with 18 countries with at least one species of sawfish missing and 28 countries with at least two. The United States and Australia appear to be the last strongholds of the species, where sawfish are better protected. [[Science Advances]] identifies [[Cuba]], [[Tanzania]], [[Colombia]], [[Madagascar]], [[Panama]], [[Brazil]], [[Mexico]] and [[Sri Lanka]] as the nations where urgent action could make a big contribution to saving the species.
The combined range of the five sawfish species encompassed 90 countries, but today they have certainly disappeared entirely from 20 of these and possibly disappeared from several others. Many more have lost at least one of their species, leaving only one or two remaining. Of the five species of sawfish, three are critically endangered and two are endangered according to the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]]'s [[IUCN Red List|Red List of Threatened Species]].{{Cite news|date=2021-02-12|title='Hedge trimmer' fish facing global extinction|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56031151|access-date=2021-02-12}} The sawfish is now presumed extinct in 55 nations (including [[China]], [[Iraq]], [[Haiti]], [[Japan]], [[East Timor|Timor-Leste]], [[El Salvador]], [[Taiwan]], [[Djibouti]] and [[Brunei]]), with 18 countries with at least one species of sawfish missing and 28 countries with at least two. The United States and Australia appear to be the last strongholds of the species, where sawfish are better protected. [[Science Advances]] identifies [[Cuba]], [[Tanzania]], [[Colombia]], [[Madagascar]], [[Panama]], [[Brazil]], [[Mexico]] and [[Sri Lanka]] as the nations where urgent action could make a big contribution to saving the species.


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