Cheyenne Mountain Zoo joins effort to save frogs
Story By: Bea Karnes
Source: KOAA
Zoologists say we are facing the largest mass extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. As many as half of all the world's amphibians could soon be extinct. Conservationists have declared 2008 the Year of the Frog because of a rapid extinction of hundreds of species of amphibians.
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is joining the Amphibian Ark program which aims to rescue 500 of the world's most endangered frogs and salamanders by promoting their captive breeding at zoos around the world. "If all the zoos do take them into captivity and can maintain them and reproduce them, we are depending on our colleagues in the wild, the governments, and the biologists, and the universities to work on how can we solve this extinction crisis in the wild-- so that we can put them back out into the wild," said Dr. Della Garelle, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
Amphibians are considered a warning of problem in the environment because of their sensitivity.
