Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Declining rate of frog species because they are unable to reproduce


    Frog population is on a decline. At least 3.1% of frog species have gone extinct due to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. An important reason for the frog species to decrease in the near future is because of the risk for epidemics caused by pathogens, Fungus B dendrobatidis, invasion species and the climate change. According to the article about climate change and global warming, it states that amphibians need moist climate to reproduce, which is the reason why frogs are going extinct because they are not the given the chance to reproduce to keep the generations going. In the next century, John Alroy, an biologist in Australia, have been studying about this issue around the world. Another 9.6 % have the possibility of going extinct.
    Personally, I feel as if we are able to help with this issue because one reason of the frog species going extinct is because of global warming. If people are able to reduce their carbon footprints, that will help the near future generations. Climate changes have more effect from things like pollution, habitat destruction, over-harvesting, and so on.

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