6,000 tadpoles going home!

[Catherine]

The Toronto Zoo has been breeding Puerto Rican crested toads in a desperate effort to save them from extinction.
Working with around 60 adults the zoo has been able to return 145,000 toads to the wild. They are now not just in one location which was a very vulnerable situation. They are in three locations. That is much safer for the species.

This has been a good year. There are 6,000 tadpoles ready to be returned to their native home in hopes of expanding the species numbers in the wild.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

It is remarkable and very heartening the number of conservation efforts that are going on right now. In many cases they are having great success. Many species will survive because we are fighting to keep them alive.

I wish the 6,000 every success in their future. I know they won't all survive, but I hope that many of them do make it.