NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The effort continues to save an endangered species that calls New Mexico home. The silvery minnow once populated the entire Rio Grande, but now, it only lives in the river between Cochiti and Elephant Butte.

That's only seven percent of their original range. Since the early 2000s, the BioPark Aquatic Conservation Facility has been working to fix that, collecting eggs each spring to raise at ACF that are then released in teh fall.

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