Tragic Planet

The Golden Frog of Panama.

The cute little Golden Frog was a national symbol of Panama. It fell victim of the chytrid fungus which wiped it out in 2007.
The Panamanian golden frog declared extinct by BBC Natural History crew
Thankfully Panamanian authorities along with several zoos around the world were able to collect a few specimens to [...]

Comments Off

(source) WASHINGTON – Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — and the entire population gone from Alaska — because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
Only in the northern Canadian Arctic islands and the west coast of Greenland are any of [...]

2 Comments »