Around 40 per cent of the remaining native white-clawed crayfish population in England could be wiped out in a year Crayfish plague has been identified in the River Allen in Dorset, one of just four areas in the south west which still have natural populations of the white-clawed crayfish, which are native to the UK. “This was one of the
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Native British crayfish facing extinction following mysterious outbreak of plague The UK’s endangered native crayfish species could be completely wiped out after a deadly plague was identified in one of its few strongholds. Around 40 per cent of Britain’s remaining 20,000-strong white-clawed crayfish population is expected to die within a year after the government confirmed the existence of crayfish plague
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An appeal has been launched to safeguard one of the last remaining white-clawed crayfish habitats after the outbreak of a killer disease. More than 100 of the rare native crayfish species have so far died as a result of crayfish plague on Dorset’s River Allen. The disease, carried by non-native American signal crayfish, was first discovered on the river in
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