Australian Noah's Ark Program Combats Cane Toad
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Australian conservationists are combating an invasion of poisonous cane toads through a modern-day Noah's Ark program, taking pairs of endangered animals to toad-free islands to breed safely.
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Description: A long-awaited assessment of frog, toad and salamander populations around the world finds nearly one-third of species are threatened with extinction.
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Amphibians are experiencing a precipitous decline across the globe, according to the first comprehensive world survey of the creatures, which include frogs, toads and salamanders.
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A third of the world&#39;s amphibian species are in danger of extinction, according to the first-ever global survey of the animals.
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The North American bullfrog population is booming. That may sound like good news, but it isn't&#151;not when the frog has leaped far beyond its native habitat.
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By NANCY ZUCKERBROD  WASHINGTON - The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its plan for the Spring Creek Bladderpod Wednesday.
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Wild camels in drought-stricken  Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment  and property as they compete with native animals for food and  water.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 19--Nebraskans continue to align for and against a federal-state plan to meet the Platte River habitat needs of four rare wildlife species.
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Scientists have called for a Noah's Ark-type rescue for thousands of frog species they say could face the same fate as the now-extinct dinosaurs unless drastic measures are taken swiftly.
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It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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By Louise Popplewell, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Dec. 18--AUSTWELL -- A greater flamingo that escaped from a Kansas zoo and made a 600-mile trip to South Texas has apparently found a companion in a Caribbean flamingo that probably blew in with last summer's Katrina and Rita hurricanes.
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A badger cull is proposed as part of the fight against bovine TB, but animal groups are opposing the move.
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By JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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The small frogs that croaked in Diane Butler's backyard pond had been silenced and her goldfish were disappearing. She had the culprit, dead in a plastic bag inside her freezer. Butler's capture &#151; a 4 1/2-inch Cuban tree frog &#151; in coastal Savannah has caused a nervous stir among wildlife biologists in Georgia and Florida.
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The rapidly growing kangaroo population in Canberra, Australia's capital, has become such a public safety issue that scientists have devised a plan to curb the animals' numbers with a contraceptive pill.
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A 5-year-old girl saved her infant sister from a possible attack by an Australian wild dog - called a dingo - on an island where the animals savaged a 9-year-old boy to death three years ago.