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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Their joints and tails have a paler white hue. A Cherax pulverulentus, or dusty crayfish, showing the “blue” coloring. Photo from Patoka, Akmal, Bláha and Kouba (2025) ...

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 ...

Signal crayfish. Picture: Trevor Renals (Image: Archant). Dead and dying native white-clawed crayfish were found in the River Glaven by members of the Glaven Conservation Group and the Norfolk ...

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An ecological alarm is being sounded at the Nuneaton home of one of the most endangered species in Britain. It is feared that the entire 50,000-strong colony of native white-clawed crayfish in ...

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 ...