Rescue mission evacuated the last of the world’s Loa water frogs in Chile

Three days after herpetologist Andrés Charrier discovered a critically endangered species of water frog in Chile had disappeared from the now dried up single stream they were known to inhabit, he and a team of conservationists lept into action to understand what had happened, and more importantly, where the frogs had gone.  As Charrier started examining the Loa water frog’s habitat, likely dried up due to illegal water extraction through mining or agriculture, he discovered a muddy pond and buried in the muck were several live, …