From Green Right Now Reports
Birds, bees and frogs. We’ve known for a long time that they’re affected by pesticides and chemical pollution.
In the last few years, many scientists have come to see frogs, whose populations are in steep decline, as one of the most vulnerable; humankind’s canary in the coal mine.
Now researchers at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale are illuminating why frogs are in such deep trouble. They’ve found that just a few grains of a pesticide ingredient commonly used in California agriculture can make mountain streams lethal to frogs.
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If you build it, they will come (and croak): Backyard frog ponds
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
Frogs and toads across the country could use a helping hand.
Amphibians — from the endangered Houston Toad to the threatened Golden Coqui — are disappearing at an alarming rate, faster than any other vertebrate. Many species around the globe have disappeared entirely, according to the Animal Welfare Institute’s Endangered Species Handbook (as well as numerous other sources.)
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Frogs could be nearing extinction thanks to human consumption
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
Last year may have been the Year of the Frog, but it appears that twelve months of focus on amphibian-threatening disease haven’t eased one threat to Kermit’s cousins: Human beings may simply gobble the survivors all up.
Researchers at the University of Adelaide in South Australia say that frogs are in danger of extinction partly because of human consumption; they say over-harvesting — coupled with more significant natural threats currently endangering wild frog populations, like “disease, habitat loss, and climate change” — are putting frogs on track to the kind of dwindling populations seen in certain kinds of fish.
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