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Frogs, salamanders, and toads across the world are now under attack from a widening range of interacting pathogens that threaten to.
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- Deformed frogs in Minnesota
- The diminishing song of Quebec’s chorus frogs
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That last point is one of the most significant to watch for, says wildlife expert Chris Shepherd, who is not connected with the frog-breeding company Wikiri.
Shepherd has devoted his life to studying the illegal wildlife trade and recently focused his attention on southeast Asia, where captive breeding programs have become nearly as corrupt as the poaching they claimed to combat. TRAFFIC, the wildlife watchdog group at which Shepherd most recently worked, published a report outlining how breeding tokay geckos in captivity in Indonesia provided a cover for the larger, more lucrative illegal trade.
Deformed frogs in Minnesota
Shepherd explains that only certain animals are suitable for captive breeding programs. Those that reproduce slowly and take longer to reach sexual maturity are rarely cost-effective, and animals found in abundance in the wild can be sold more profitably than those that were bred in the wild. Compared with mammals, frogs may be more suitable for captive breeding because they reproduce quickly and require little space. Many lay eggs outside and hatch as tadpoles.
The diminishing song of Quebec’s chorus frogs
According to the AFP, Wikiri is a 54,square foot facility with hundreds of terrariums used to house its frogs. The company did not return multiple request for comment on how it sets prices or its plans for the future. No one knows how many frogs are illegally sold each year on the black market, but TRAFFIC estimates that illegal wildlife trading to amount to hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Demand is one of the most dangerous economic drivers of the trade, according to the website of the Wildlife conservation group Save the Frogs.
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In the U. Whether or not one private company can put a dent in a lucrative international pet trade remains to be seen. Update: In an emailed statement, Wikiri stated they plan to adjust the prices of their frogs to stay competitive with the black market while maintaining ethical standards. Ecuador is home to over frog species and many face risks from the illegal pet trade. One company thinks it knows how to stop it.
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By the late s, researchers had identified that frogs in widely different places around the world were infected with a deadly fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis — or Bd for short. The fungus originated on the Korean peninsula, but the pathogen spread throughout the world, probably via the international trade in pet amphibians. By , researchers speculated that Bd might be responsible for all known declines of frogs that had no other apparent cause — about species.
Recently, a group of 41 scientists published the first worldwide analysis of the fungal outbreak and the devastation turns out to be far worse than anyone had previously realized. Populations of more than species of amphibians have declined significantly because of the outbreak, including at least 90 species presumed to have gone extinct.
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These figures are more than twice as large as earlier estimates.