BBC News - Frog hunt ends: Most still absent
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
The Rio Pescado stubfoot toad was the only one on the "top-10 wanted" list to be rediscovered
A mission to discover whether any of 100 amphibian species believed to be extinct are still alive has ended with few successes to report.The five-month project took researchers to 21 countries; but only four of the targeted 100 were found.
Researchers describe these as "glimmers of hope" in a group of animals severely threatened by changing land use, disease, pollution and climate change.
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"'This is a reminder that we are in the midst of what is being called the "Sixth Great Extinction", with species disappearing at 100 to 1,000 times the historic rate - and amphibians are really at the forefront of this extinction wave.'"
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