Editing Mermaid (section)

=== Twenty-first century ===
[[File:Mermaid skeleton.jpg|thumb|Reconstructed mermaid skeleton in [[Zoologisk Museum]]]]
In August 2009, after dozens of people reported seeing a mermaid leaping out of [[Haifa Bay]] waters and doing aerial tricks, the Israeli coastal town of [[Kiryat Yam]] offered a $1&nbsp;million award for proof of its existence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107034.html |title=Is a Mermaid Living Under the Sea in Kiryat Yam? |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |date=12 August 2009 |access-date=22 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107203643/http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107034.html |archive-date=7 January 2010 }}</ref>

In February 2012, work on two reservoirs near [[Gokwe centre|Gokwe]] and [[Mutare]] in Zimbabwe stopped when workers refused to continue, stating that mermaids had hounded them away from the sites. It was reported by [[Samuel Sipepa Nkomo]], the water resources minister.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-mermaids-problem-for-water-minister-138664059/1467126.html|title='Mermaid' Sightings in Zimbabwe Spark Debate Over Traditional Beliefs|date=3 February 2012|website=VOA |access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref>