The hunt's afoot for Kruger's amphibians in new kiss-and-tell study

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Aquatic ecosystems Indeed, life for a frog is no fairy tale. Amphibian population declines and species extinction are occurring around the world. Locally, the picture is just as gloomy. According to James Harrison, pro ject leader of The Atlas and Red Data Book of Frogs of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (published in 2004) locally, 25 species are classified as threatened or as near threatened, more than 20% of the total number of species. He adds that as new spe cies are still being discovered and described, the number of threatened species is likely to grow.

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