Golf courses around the world feature picturesque water ponds as a challenging hazard for players to avoid, but scientists say these permanent wetlands could be key breeding sites for threatened native fish.
Once found along the Murray Darling Basin but now locally extinct due to habitat loss, the olive perchlet has returned to South Australian waters for the first time since 1983.
Backed by $50,000 from the South Australian government-supported group Green Adelaide, not-for-profit Nature Glenelg Trust is repopulating the native fish as part of its rewilding program.
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