Image credit: Tim Herman/ IUCN The Kinhansi spray toad was first discovered in 1996 when it’s tiny five-acre habitat in Tanzania was surveyed for inclusion in massive hydro-electric dam project. Though the dam was built upstream, it reduced Kinhansi falls to 10 percent of its original flow, drying the mist zone that made up the toads’ home. By 2009, the IUCN declared the toad extinct in the wild. Now, a population of captive-bred spray toads are… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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