Frogs all over the world are vanishing, almost overnight. Scientists and conservationists are disparately trying to collect breeding populations and find quarters for them before their species are destroyed. Also dying are toads, salamanders, newts, amphibians of all kinds. We are losing hundreds of species everyday.

Pollution and habitat loss have already weakened many populations, but that is not the current executioner. A microscopic fungus is spreading like wildfire throughout the world and killing amphibians in the water it contaminates.

Where did it come from and why is it killing frogs now? It seems it all started back in the 1930's when African Clawed Frogs were shipped to labs around the world for pregnancy testing. The frogs were infected with the fungus. The fungus spread on the shoes of lab workers, on frogs that escaped, on frogs that went into the pet trade. And it has been spreading ever since with deadly results as it infects population after population of frogs.

We are working on cures and treatments, but at this time we have nothing that will save the frogs of the world.

Read more about it here.

Angel