Leonardo DiCaprio hails Chester Zoo for 'bringing rare fish species back from the dead'

Leonardo DiCaprio hails Chester Zoo for 'bringing rare fish species back from the dead'

Source: itv

11/25/2022

Leonardo DiCaprio hails Chester Zoo for 'bringing rare fish species back from the dead'

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Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has hailed Chester Zoo for "bringing a rare fish species back from the dead".

It is after experts from the zoo, alongside their conservation partners, helped to resurrect the golden skiffia fish from extinction during this year's Day of the Dead in Mexico.

The team released more than 1,000 fish back into the wild in the Teuchitlan River - a place where the species hadn't been seen since the 1990s.

The group of golden skiffia had been successfully bred by aquarists who created a conservation breeding programme that prevented the fish from becoming globally extinct.