Ok so i'm the stupid one, or at least blind. Taking me till december to work this one out. We were invited to the jhb zoo for some or other walk thingy ... they do it all the time, was a first for me.
Why Year of the Frog?
A deadly disease threatens amphibians
Frogs are going extinct. So are toads, salamanders, newts, and the intriguingly unusual caecilians. In fact, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) predicts that at least one-third of known amphibian species are in danger of disappearing from the earth for good www.globalamphibians.org.
In addition to habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and other factors a deadly disease is threatening to make many frogs and other amphibian species die out completely. Chytridiomycosis is a disease caused by a fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). This fungus is destroying amphibian species and populations as we speak. Unless we act now, we could be facing one of the largest extinctions since the time of the dinosaurs.
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