Wales-wide conservation effort accelerates to save native crayfish from extinction

Wales-wide conservation effort accelerates to save native crayfish from extinction

White-clawed Crayfish credit: MWT Tamasine Stretton Crayfish conservation efforts are accelerating across Wales as organisations work together to protect the white-clawed crayfish, a native species at risk of disappearing from Welsh rivers. Once thriving across Wales, the white-clawed crayfish is now endangered and faces extinction due to increasing pressures from invasive species like the North American signal crayfish, pollution, climate chang…