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Mexican fishermen join fight to save extraordinary amphibian

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The achoque salamander is a lesser known relative of the axolotl, the small friendly-faced amphibian battling extinction in Mexico City .

Overfishing, pollution and reduced water levels in Lake Patzcuaro , its only natural habitat, mean that it is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature .

Biologists pay the local Indigenous community of San Jeronimo Purenchecuaro to help the amphibian to reproduce.

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86

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informal

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English

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54

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