DENVER, CO — The Denver Zoo successfully bred and released more than 600 endangered Boreal Toads. Two of the zoo’s amphibian experts traveled to a remote area in southwestern Utah to release the toads, which were hatched and raised at the zoo.
The initiative was the first successful breeding and release of such magnitude, and is a boon to the population of the high-altitude amphibians and future efforts to save the endangered species from extinction, the zoo said.
Amphibians are facing an unprecedented crisis, the zoo said. More than 50 percent of frog, toad, salamander and caecilian species are at risk of extinction within the next 50 to 100 years due to habitat loss, climate change, pollution and disease.
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Chytrid fungus, in particular, can infect the majority of the world’s more than 7,000 amphibian species, and is linked to overwhelming population declines and extinctions globally, the zoo said.
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