Rebuilding a Species...One Tiny Toad at a Time!

Not all news about the tropical rainforests is bad news. Paradise Earth stumbled across some encouraging news that we just had to share. It's been reported over the last twenty years or so that amphibian life are threatened with extinction ... at least 200 species have gone extinct. Just yesterday, a Kihansi spray toadlet was born at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo. This little creature was last seen in the wild May of 2005. The birth of the Kihansi toadlet has renewed hopes that the species can someday be successfully reintroduced to its natural habitat in a remote gorge in Tanzania.