A stream which is home to one of West Yorkshire's last remaining populations of endangered white-clawed crayfish has been awarded protected status. Luddenden Brook, at Jerusalem Farm nature ...

White-clawed Crayfish being released to the "Ark Site". Photo: Karim Vahed The Midlands Crayfish Partnership said that as a keystone species, it plays a vital role in freshwater ecosystems and is ...

The white-clawed crayfish are also affected by a common parasite, porcelain disease, which affects their ability to catch prey, leading affected crayfish to eat 30% less.

As a bigger, meatier commercial species and colourful pet for home aquariums, it also spread to Britain in the 1970s, where it has exterminated the native white-clawed crayfish from a great many ...

White-clawed crayfish The UK is home to a quarter of the world's population, but numbers are declining massively, and global extinction is a frightening but real possibility.

The River Kent is the last river system in the UK that has a proper population of white clawed crayfish, Mr Harpley continued. "It's not a good thing to happen, but just how damaging it is depends ...

The young crayfish serve as food for fish and other aquatic organisms, Raphael Krieg, who initiated the project with Armin Zenker, told Keystone-ATS. Just after hatching, crayfish are barely a ...

THE Environment Agency has discovered the presence of endangered native white-clawed crayfish in a stream near Ilkley. Innovative environmental DNA testing was used to ascertain whether the ...

Now, our boys have almost killed off all of Britain's native white-clawed crayfish, and a recent study has figured out why. In short, the American crayfish 1) carry a plague and 2) eat way more ...

The project, to boost local white-clawed crayfish numbers, took off last year when Banham Zoo, which is run by the Zoological Society of East Anglia (ZSEA), was awarded a £95,300 grant, external ...

The white-clawed crayfish are also affected by a common parasite, porcelain disease, which affects their ability to catch prey, leading affected crayfish to eat 30% less.

A stream which is home to one of West Yorkshire's last remaining populations of endangered white-clawed crayfish has been awarded protected status. Luddenden Brook, at Jerusalem Farm nature ...