Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Toxic toads could devastate Madagascar’s biodiversity

Toxic toads could devastate Madagascar’s biodiversity

In 2014, a toxic invasive species—the Asian common toad—was spotted in Madagascar’s largest seaport. Conservation biologists quickly sounded an urgent alarm, warning that the invader could devastate the African island’s unique biodiversity, which includes lemurs and hundreds of other animals found nowhere else in the world.
Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/toxic-toads-could-devastate-madagascar-s-biodiversity?source=Snapzu

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