"Scientists battling to fight a lethal amphibian disease on two islands in Caribbean have witnessed what is believed to be one of the fastest range-wide declines ever recorded for any animal – pushing a critically endangered frog species towards the verge of extinction."
Read more on the website of the Zoological Society of London:
https://www.zsl.org/science/news/chytrid-responsible-for-one-of-fastest-species-declines-ever-recorded
Read the full paper here (open access):
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep30772
Mountain chicken (c) ZSL
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