Saving the Last Ship Sturgeon: Identifying the world’s last natural Ship Sturgeon populations and spawning grounds in the Rioni River
Georgia is included in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots which means that there is a high biological diversity and at the same time this diversity is highly threatened. Ilia State University sturgeon research team received a grant from The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund to study and save on of the worlds critically endangered sturgeon species: Ship sturgeon-Acipenser nudiventris (Saving the Last Ship Sturgeon: Identifying the world’s last natural Ship Sturgeon populations and spawning grounds in the Rioni River). Based on research, the Rioni River Ship sturgeon might be the last natural population worldwide. Therefore, saving this population in Georgia would be one of the steps in their conservation globally.
The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund is functioning from 2008 and supports:
- Individual species conservation initiatives;
- Identify leaders in the species conservation field;
- Raise the importance of species in the broader debate on species conservation.
For additional information please visit: https://www.speciesconservation.org/about-us/
Project donor: The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
2024