Amphibian crisis: 41% of species deemed threatened with extinction
The researchers identified four amphibian species – a frog from Australia, a frog from Guatemala, a salamander from Guatemala and a toad from Costa Rica – that have disappeared since 2004. They also listed 185 species as “possibly extinct,” with no known surviving population.
Habitat destruction and degradation, caused mostly by animal agriculture and crops, remained the most common danger, affecting 93% of the threatened amphibian species. But a growing proportion of species was being imperiled by disease and climate change, the researchers found.
Luedtke et al 2023 – Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians
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