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Urgent action is needed to save one of the world’s largest frogs from one of the world’s most devastating wildlife diseases as the latest survey reveals just 21 individuals remain in the wildA global collaboration of conservation scientists is sounding the alarm to initiate urgent action to save one of the world’s largest frogs, which hovers on the brink of extinction.
“The charismatic male calls of the mountain chicken frog once reverberated around the rainforests of Dominica at night — we want to bring this sound back to our island, for our people,” said wildlife ecologist and conservationist Jeanelle Brisbane, an Assistant Forest Officer with the Throught its evolutionary history, the giant mountain chicken frog has survived hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and later, human hunting, but it is the introduction of a deadly microscopic fungus that may finally seal its fate. Amphibian chytridiomycosis arrived in Dominica in 2002 and quickly led to this frog’s population to plummet by over 99% in just a few short years. A number of surveys since then found no wild mountain chickens on Dominica between 2006 and 2010.
Invasive species such as cats, dogs and rats, along with habitat destruction due to agriculture, quarrying and construction, and even climate breakdown, are all taking their toll and creating a multitude of challenges for protecting this species.
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