Australia's smallest freshwater fish was on the brink of extinction, until now | ABC News

Australia's smallest and rarest freshwater fish has been on the brink of extinction for decades.
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The red-finned blue-eye is an Australian native species found only in the Great Artesian Basin springs on Edgbaston Reserve in remote western Queensland and nowhere else in the world.
But a never-before-trialled conservation and breeding program has given the red-finned blue-eye a fighting chance at survival. Ellie Grounds reports.
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