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WIldlife Wednesday: Silvery Minnow Conservation
The Rio Grande silvery minnow has been on life support for decades. A team at the Albuquerque BioPark is helping to keep the minnow alive even as the federal government recently cut funding for conservation work on the species.
Workers at the BioPark’s Aquatic Conservation Facility – tucked in behind the Botanic Garden in the heart of Albuquerque – raise and release thousands of silvery minnows into the Middle Rio Grande each year. The federal government and the state operate other minnow hatcheries.
Kathy Lang, aquatic conservation and operations manager at the BioPark and Patrick Horley, curator of the BioPark’s Aquatic Conservation Facility, will discuss their work on conserving silvery minnows. They will give a joint presentation at the New Mexico Wildlife Federation’s ‘Wildlife Wednesday” event on July 9. The free event will start at 5:30 p.m. at Marble Brewery’s Northeast Heights Taproom at 9904 Montgomery Blvd., NE, in Albuquerque.
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