Frogs Under Threat

For 10 years, the world's last known Sehuencas water frog, named Romeo, lived alone in captivity in a Bolivian museum. Repeated expeditions by biologists into the nation's cloud forests, the only place the amphibians exist, had turned up no new specimens. The once-plentiful frogs had been all but wiped out by a killer fungus, widespread habitat los...

Nearly 50 per cent of around 36 different species of frogs found in Munnar region of Western Ghats are threatened by extinction, say conservationists.

For 10 years, the world's last known Sehuencas water frog, named Romeo, lived alone in captivity in a Bolivian museum. Repeated expeditions by biologists into the nation's cloud forests, the only place the amphibians exist, had turned up no new specimens. The once-plentiful frogs had been all but wiped out by a killer fungus, widespread habitat los...

Nearly 50 per cent of around 36 different species of frogs found in Munnar region of Western Ghats are threatened by extinction, say conservationists.