Planting steps for frog conservation in Western Ghats, India

By Wildlife Trust India
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Amphibians are the group with the highest proportion of threatened species. In India, a tree frog Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus, commonly known as the Anaimalai Flying Frog or False Malabar Gliding Frog, which is Critically Endangered and endemic to a restricted range in Western Ghats, is hanging on to […]

Introducing Rio Forqueta, a Key Biodiversity Area to protect the Admirable Red-Belly Toad

By Luis Fernando Marin da Fonte, Amphibian Survival Alliance

 The Rio Forqueta Key Biodiversity Area is part of one of the few, yet largest, Brazilian Atlantic Forest frag- ments in the extreme south of Brazil. The entire single known population of a microendemic and Critically Endangered amphibian species (Admirable Red-Belly Toad, […]

BMW Group, Tetra Pak and Schüco International Express Concerns About Sourcing Aluminium from Ghana’s Irreplaceable Atewa Forest

As Ghana Weighs Economic Benefits of Mining Bauxite for Aluminium, Multi-Billion-Dollar Global Companies Respond to the Community Groups Calling for Protection of Critical Forest 

Ghana, 3 February – Three global manufacturing companies—BMW Group, Tetra Pak and Schüco International—have signaled concern over the use of bauxite sourced from Ghana’s Atewa Forest […]

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