Frogs hopping into extinction
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Australian scientists once marveled at an unusual frog that could turn off its gastric juices and brood its young in its stomach. But by 1981, the southern gastric-brooding frog had completely disappeared.
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The loss and degradation of habitat pose the most significant threats to hundreds of Florida wildlife species. Lack of funding and enforcement and staff turnover represent the biggest
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They may thrive on land and in water, but amphibians everywhere are in serious trouble and up to a third of species are threatened with extinction, a troubling new study said on Friday.
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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 extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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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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WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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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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Pygmy chimpanzees, one of humanity's closest living relatives, have been pushed to the brink of extinction in the war-battered Democratic Republic of Congo, conservation group WWF International said on Thursday.
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More birds than ever are threatened with extinction, according to the latest evaluation by the conservation group BirdLife International.
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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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By DORIE TURNER  ATLANTA - Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent.  The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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November 17, 2004 (Bangkok, Thailand) - The world&#39;s biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, according to the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and a companion study of the data, the Global Species Assessment (GSA).
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Science & environment: New survey warns six plant and animal species are facing extinction as lowland heath is being lost
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A total of 15,589 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction, according to the so- called Red List of endangered species produced by the IUCN World Conservation Union.
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A giant Chinese salamander that predates  Tyrannosaurus rex and the world's smallest frog are among a  group of extremely rare amphibians identified by scientists on  Monday as being in need of urgent help to survive.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.