Tag: toads

Arroyo toads’ have seemingly weathered long-term drought in California, but the desert specialists are still disappearing from some of their former wetland breeding sites. The arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus) is...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued an emergency endangered listing for Dixie Valley toad on April 7 due to the extinction risk posed by a geothermal project. The Dixie...

Being the last surviving species of their genus or family and living in imperiled ecosystem types are important factors for scientists to consider when setting aside land for amphibian conservation...

A boreal toad population has become nearly extirpated in an area of western Montana that was relatively recently converted to a national wildlife refuge. “In essence, what we found in...

Populations of Arizona toads are standing their ground despite the generalist nature of their cousins downstream. “I call them the ‘trash can toad’” because they will breed in just about...

Researchers know that frogs, toads and salamanders have been facing steep declines in recent decades, but is climate change the main driver? Putting together data from across North America, including...

The fungal pathogen behind the extinction of entire species of South American amphibians has been detected for the first time in endangered frogs and toads in India. In a study...

Young citizen scientists aged 4 to 16 have discovered that many frogs and toads on California’s northern coast are infected with the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Seventeen percent of...