About 170 of the critically endangered Southern mountain yellow-legged frogs were released into the wild recently.
About 170 Southern mountain yellow-legged frogs, a critically endangered amphibian native to Southern California’s mountainous regions, were recently let loose in their wild habitat, officials announced Thursday, Sept. 7.in the region’s high-elevation bodies of water, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, but are now extinct in anywhere from 70% to 90% of their native habitat.
There are many reasons for that decline, according to the state, including the introduction of non-native fishes, pesticides, drought and livestock grazing, among other environmental concerns. A majority of the 170 frogs were hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo and later transported to the Aquarium of the Pacific, where they were raised from tadpoles to fully frown frogs. They were released back into their native habitat on Aug. 29 and 30
That wildfire burned about 115,000 acres of land in Los Angeles County in 2020 and, according to the news release, threatened the cold-water streams where the frog lives — prompting government officials to rescue the tadpoles they could and place them with conservation partners, including Long Beach’s aquarium.
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