Living planet report 2022
<p>Wildlife populations monitored across the globe have declined by a massive 69 per cent between 1970 and 2018, according to this WWF's Living Planet Report (LPR) 2022</p>
Amphibians
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Freshwater biodiversity under threat
More than half of the 130 species were not in the ‘Protected Area’ of State More than half of the endemic freshwater biodiversity in the Kerala region of the Western Ghats could be inching towards extinction
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Caribbean island's last two rare frogs are reunited
The last two remaining wild mountain chicken frogs living on Montserrat have been reunited, and are hoped to begin breeding on the Caribbean island for the first time since 2009. Last month, a project
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Are Amphibians About To Go Extinct? The Amphibian Crisis is Worse Than You Think
As amphibian crisis persists across the United States, scientists are working continuously to come up with an emergency response to reverse their decline. However, a new research has confirmed that there
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New research confirms continued, unabated and large-scale amphibian declines
LAUREL, Md. -- New U.S. Geological Survey-led research suggests that even though amphibians are severely declining worldwide, there is no smoking gun - and thus no simple solution - to halting or reversing
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Quantitative evidence for the effects of multiple drivers on continental-scale amphibian declines
<p>Since amphibian declines were first proposed as a global phenomenon over a quarter century ago, the conservation community has made little progress in halting or reversing these trends. The early search
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Dramatic declines of montane frogs in a central African biodiversity hotspot
<p>Amphibian populations are vanishing worldwide. Declines and extinctions of many populations have been attributed to chytridiomycosis, a disease induced by the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
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'Dancing' tadpoles discovered in India's Western Ghats
A new tadpole that burrows through sand has been discovered in the Western Ghats of India, scientists report. The researchers' study, published in the journal Plos One, says that tadpoles would not normally
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Unearthing the fossorial tadpoles of the Indian dancing frog family Micrixalidae
<p>Tadpoles of the monotypic Indian dancing frog family Micrixalidae have remained obscure for over 125 years. Here we report the discovery of the elusive tadpoles of Micrixalus herrei from the sand beds
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More than 50 animal species critically endangered: Govt
NEW DELHI: Out of 96,000 animal species in the country, more than 50 have been assessed as "critically endangered" and 310 as "endangered", the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday. "Studies conducted
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Frog species with yellow eyebrows found in Colombia
Researchers say they have discovered a new frog species with distinctive yellow eyebrows in Colombia. The frog has a dark camouflage pattern which allows it to blend in with the rocky soil on which it