Endangered Galaxy Frogs Are Disappearing Because Tourist Photographers Disrupted Their Habitats

Endangered galaxy frogs have disappeared from a study site in the Western Ghats, India, after several groups of tourist photographers allegedly destroyed the amphibians' habitat and handled the ...
AZ Animals

Why Photographing India’s Galaxy Frogs Can Do More Harm Than Good

Galaxy frogs are endangered by flash photography, handling, and habitat disruption. Learn how tourism is harming this fragile ...
OPB

Oregon Zoo releases endangered frogs into the wild

Alan Zhou / OPB Plans to develop a new population of endangered frogs are hopping along in Eastern Washington. This month, nearly 100 northern leopard frogs reared at the Oregon Zoo were released into ...
Digital Camera World on MSN

The tragic cost of wildlife photography: Rare and beautiful Galaxy frogs threatened by photo tourism

Unregulated and irresponsible wildlife photography is disturbing fragile habitats and putting species at serious risk of population decline, says the latest ZSL report ...
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Northwest Trek releases nearly 400 endangered frogs into the wild

Northwest Trek Wildlife Park said nearly 400 northern leopard frogs raised in its care are now back in the wild. Northern leopard frogs have been endangered in Washington since 1999. According to ...
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A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk

By Astrid Arellano Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote ...
Times of San Diego

Hundreds of endangered frogs released into wild in multi-agency effort

Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego marked the occasion as its first ever species reintroduction. The frogs were released into the San Bernardino Mountains in a ...
Outdoors on MSNOpinion

Endangered galaxy frogs are disappearing and tourists are to blame

Once again, tourists are the reason for the demise of an ecosystem. Far too often, I write about how tourists disrupt ...
Yahoo

Conservation efforts lead to 'fantastic' comeback of critically endangered frog species: 'Doing much better'

A critically endangered frog that was on the verge of extinction not long ago has made a comeback, thanks to scientists. The dusky gopher frog, native to Mississippi and known for its snore-like call, ...
KSL

Endangered frog daddies transported 7,000 miles to 'give birth' to young

LONDON — Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles in a bid to save their species from extinction have "given birth" to 33 froglets at London Zoo. Originally from Parque Tantauco, a ...
ZSL

'Star-studded' galaxy frog threatened by photography tourism

The paper, published today (17 December 2025) in Herpetology Notes describes how a population of threatened galaxy frogs is no longer detected in their study site in the Western Ghats, India, after ...
AOL

Endangered frogs threatened by California wildfires once again. A rescue could be in order

Endangered frogs snatched as tadpoles from fire-ravaged mountains above Los Angeles in 2020 were returned home last year in a moment of hope and excitement. But the California amphibians are once ...