Worldwide Report Says Amphibians in Danger
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As many as 122 species have disappeared since 1980, and 1,900 are in danger of becoming extinct.
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The global extinction crisis is worse than thought, because thousands of &quot;affiliated&quot; species also at risk do not figure in calculations.
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TORONTO, Mar 9 (TierramÃ©rica) - Frogs and other amphibians are rapidly becoming   extinct around the world and in Latin American countries in  particular. In  the Caribbean as many as 80 percent of these  species are endangered, while  in Colombia there are 209 and in  Mexico 198 amphibians may soon disappear.
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The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released yesterday that found a third of all amphibian species worldwide are threatened with extinction.
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Small, warty, and poisonous enough to kill crocodiles, the cane toad has wreaked havoc in parts of Australia. Experts say climate change is benefiting the invasive species.
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Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening future cures for disease, experts warn.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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By ARTHUR MAX  THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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An explosion of soyabean farming in South America is threatening huge areas of forest and grassland containing some of the world's richest and most diverse wildlife, a leading conservation group said on Thursday.
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As pollution and a killer fungus decimate frog populations around the world, scientists work to quarantine a stock of healthy croakers. By the Associated Press.
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More than 15,000 species, from sharks to frogs to fir trees, are facing extinction and the total is rising faster than ever before.
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Britain's seas are in crisis, with key species in serious decline, according to a report by the WWF.
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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 recent census of the world's primate population finds that many of them are in danger of disappearing
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The growing number of deformed frogs in recent years is caused at least partly by runoff from farming and ranching, new research indicates.
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THE GLOBAL extinction crisis ignores thousands of affiliated species that are also at risk of being wiped out, making the list of endangered species much larger and more serious than originally thought, says a study produced in part at the University of
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Almost a third of the world's amphibian species are confronted by the prospect of extinction, naturalists say.