Tag: toad
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LIFE | Colorado zoo helps in long effort to save imperiled toad
The morning of June 7, 2023 marked an annual, early summer tradition for Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and several other facilities tasked with raising the tiny, imperiled creature. June is typically when members of the Wyoming Toad Recovery Team converge at the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge outside Laramie, Wyo., to release toads to their only…
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Denver Zoo work to save the state’s boreal toads
The Denver Zoo and Colorado Parks and Wildlife have joined forces to launch a program they say will help revive the dwindling population of the state’s boreal toads. Over the past two decades, the toad population has declined because of habitat loss. The toads have also been hit hard by the chytrid fungus, which can…