Deep Dives
20th January 2026
Saving South Africa’s rarest freshwater fish at the tip of Africa
At Africa’s southernmost tip, rivers stained dark by peat may look unassuming. But they shelter some of the most range-restricted freshwater fish on Earth – species found nowhere else, and now among the most threatened globally. Only in recent decades have scientists and researchers started to understand just how vulnerable these fish are. What they’ve…