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Canada has lost an amphibian species from wetland destruction and pollution - Cottage Life

A species of endangered tree frog that once lived in Ontario has been considered lost. In October of last year, the Committee on the Status of Endangered An environmental group is calling on the federal government to acknowledge the reasons why Canada has lost the Blanchard's cricket Frog.

Native turtles return to Yosemite after removal of invasive bullfrogs – Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the University of California, Davis. The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from the University of California, Davis, first began researching the impact of invasive bullfrogs on native northwestern pond turtles at Yosemite National Park. “At night, you could look out over the pond and see a constellation…

Scientists hope sequencing genome of tiny ‘functionally extinct’ frog could help save it – Environmental News Bits

Read the full story in The Guardian. Scientists have sequenced the genome of the critically endangered southern corroboree frog – one of Australia’s most threatened amphibians – in hope that the information could be used to aid its recovery. The striking alpine frog, which has distinctive yellow and black markings, is so threatened by disease…

What warped the minds of serial killers? Lead pollution, a new book argues. – Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Grist. When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary Ridgway, the future Green River Killer, grew up just a short drive north. Both men went on to become prolific serial killers, raping and mutilating dozens…

It’s a tiny bat buffet for green (or blue?) tree frogs - Australian Geographic

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Hundreds of endangered frogs survive reintroduction to the wild in Victoria – video | Conservation | The Guardian

Captive-bred critically endangered frogs are managing to survive after being released at a mountain stream near Mount Beauty in Victoria

Hopes high as hundreds of critically endangered frogs survive release into wild in Victoria | Endangered species | The Guardian

More than 600 captive-bred spotted tree frogs have joined the dwindling wild population near Mount Beauty – and so far more than half have been found again

A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs – Environmental News Bits

Read the full story in Nature. On warm, muggy evenings, conservation biologist Anthony Waddle and his students, along with local frog enthusiasts, venture into the wild and wet suburbs of Sydney, Australia, head torches on, searching for green and golden bell frogs (Litoria aurea). Then they frogmarch the captured amphibians into a small greenhouse made…

UQ study reveals rich but vulnerable picture of island frogs and fish – Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the University of Queensland. A first database has been compiled of the frog and freshwater fish species on hundreds of Australian islands. It was developed at The University of Queensland to help target conservation efforts across Australia’s 9,300 islands using information from multiple sources, including the Atlas of Living Australia…

With Cheap Chinese Solar, Developing Countries Leapfrog U.S. on Clean Energy - Yale E360