Sawfish inspire drive to preserve marine life

An aquarium has said it is expanding its work to protect marine life around the world, with a new partnership with a wildlife biobank.

The Deep, in Hull, said the collaboration with Nature's SAFE would help to preserve more marine and freshwater species such as the green sawfish.

The attraction has the only pair of green sawfish, which are listed as critically endangered, in the UK.

The partnership is designed to preserve cells and tissues from marine species at risk of extinction.

The Deep has led and supported a number of conservation projects in the UK and abroad.

The aquarium said the collaboration would add to its existing work towards safeguarding the world's aquatic ecosystems.

Nature's SAFE, which describes itself as the leading living biobank in the UK, said it had preserved samples from 250 different species in its quest to help save animals from extinction.

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