The federal government will designate more than 10,000 acres in Arizona and New Mexico as prime habitat for the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. More than a dozen streams and many livestock ...

• Status: Listed as threatened since 2002. • Reasons for decline: Disease, habitat loss, competition from non-native species and drought. • Description: Spotted, greenish with a raised fold of skin ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island’s largest environmental group is pushing for the inclusion of a rare local frog on the state endangered species list, as the frog’s numbers are dwindling in the ...

One of Alberta's most at-risk amphibians is making a comeback. Provincial efforts to help northern leopard frog numbers bounce back have been successful in establishing new self-sustaining populations ...

The Phoenix Zoo recently released 1,000 tadpoles into the Tonto National Forest, part of a program to save the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. The zoo collects eggs every year, and those eggs ...