A deadly fungus threatens to wipe out 100 frog species – here's how it can be stopped
- Written by Deborah Bower, Lecturer in Ecosystem Rehabilitation, University of New England
What would the world be like without frogs? Earth is in its sixth mass extinction event and amphibians are among the hardest hit.
But in the island of New Guinea, home to 6% of the world’s frog species, there’s a rare opportunity to save them from the potential conservation disaster of a chytrid fungus outbreak.
The amphibian chytrid...
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