ABU DHABI // Dr Rima Jabado, a fisheries scientist at Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, asked a lot of people she met over the past year the same question: "Do you know what a sawfish looks like?" Surprisingly, almost everyone she asked answered "yes", despite the fish being on the brink of extinction for the better part of two decades. "All sawfish are critically endangered, including the green sawfish, which swim in UAE waters. Most of the other species in their range are extinct but we have signs that, in the UAE, there is potentially...
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