San Francisco Zoo officials say they have released a rare toad inside Yosemite National Park, where it had not been seen in 11 years.
A toad that has not been seen in Yosemite National Park in 11 years was reintroduced to the park this week by San Francisco Zoo officials. Zoo officials said in a Facebook post that 118 Yosemite toads — known by their scientific name as Anaxyrus canorus — were recently airlifted and released at a meadow in the park that the species once occupied.
But climate change, wildfires and amphibian diseases have reduced the toad’s population by half, prompting wildlife officials to place it on the Federal Threatened Species list in 2014. Yosemite National Park officials say a lack of winter snowpacks in previous years and hotter temperatures have dried up breeding pools, preventing tadpoles from developing into toads. Pollution and diseases such as the chytrid fungus have also played a role.
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