‘Superfungus’ threatens last Panamanian golden frogs | Malay Mail

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PANAMA CITY, Sept 14 — Cocooned from the outside world, some 200 critically endangered golden frogs are living a sheltered existence in Panama, protected from a devastating fungus that threatens to wipe out a third of the country’s amphibian species — a situation scientists describe as...

This file photo taken April 16, 2009 shows a golden frog at the El Nispero del Valle de Anton zoo, 124km east of Panama City. — AFP pic

According to a report by the World Wildlife Fund published this week, the planet has lost more than two-thirds of its vertebrates in less than 50 years. “In Panama, we can say that about a third of the 225 species of amphibians are threatened in some way,” said STRI researcher Roberto Ibanez. The disease causes irreparable damage to vital functions. Eventually the animal dies of heart failure caused by asphyxiation.

 

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