Collaborative conservation effort to save one of SA's smallest frogs

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Biodiversity & conservation Collaborative conservation effort to save one of SA’ s smallest frogs Several organisations and individuals across South Africa have joined forces in the fight for the survival of the small Pickersgill’s Reed Frog. Article by Petro Kotzé. F rogs always seem to get the short end of the fairy tale – being as they are depicted as the exact opposite of the handsome prince. Unfortunately, it also appears that the tale of many frog species are dangerously close to an unhappy ending. Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates on Earth, with 32.5% of species currently Red Listed. Locally, the situation is not much different and, to a large extent, the survival of one specific amphibian is now dependent on people taking note of it, and even more so, planning future developments around its heartbreakingly small remaining habitat.

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