New Delhi, July 14 -- A new report by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) published on July 10, 2025, warns that 26 per cent of Africa's assessed freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction due to a variety of factors.

The report, titled Africa's Forgotten Fishes: And the Emergency Recovery Plan to Save Them, cited overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution, climate change and invasive species as some of the factors threatening the continent's over 3,200 known fish species, 28 of which were discovered last year.

According to the report, freshwater fish populations are in freefall across the African continent. The report gave the example of the Zambezi floodplain, where catches of key species have dropped by up to 90 per cent...