Why are frogs disappearing? What can you do about it? There are snippets of Kevin Zippel’s speech at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival posted earlier today. But here’s the complete speech. Definitely worth passing along.
December 11, 2007
A terrific overview of the amphibian crisis
Posted by pleasecroak under Amphibian, Amphibian Ark, IUCN Red List, Year of the Frog, Zoo, biodiversity, captive breeding, climate change, endangered species, extinct wildlife, food web, global warming, sixth major extinction event | Tags: Amphibian, Amphibian Ark, biodiversity, chytrid, climate change, endangered species, food web, Frog, global warming, sixth major extinction event, Year of the Frog |[2] Comments
December 31, 2007 at 5:47 pm
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April 18, 2009 at 10:36 am
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