ALL of New Zealand’s native frog species could be extinct within two years, warns one of the country’s leading frog experts. His gloomy prediction follows the discovery of a fatal fungal disease in one of the country’s “living fossil” frogs.
Bruce Waldman of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch fears that the disease could quickly spread to other native species. “This is really scary. There’s a real possibility that these unique frogs will disappear,” Waldman told Â鶹´«Ã½.
New Zealand’s four species of native frog belong to the ancient genus Leiopelma and differ little from the earliest frogs, which lived 200 million years ago. All four…
