Amphibia Fading.

From: World Watch | Date: May 1, 2000| Author: Mattoon, Ashley | Copyright information

The more we think we understand amphibian decline, the more mysterious it becomes-and the biggest mystery of all is whether we will act to stop it.

Why did it die out? The golden toad (Bufo periglenes) is by now perhaps the world's most famous amphibian, but it probably no longer exists it lived only in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica--a foggy that of dense upland forest wracked by heavy winds that blow off the Caribbean. The toad's main babitat was on ...

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