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  • Mountain chicken frog almost extinct
  • Only 21 frogs left: survey
  • Decline attributed to ecological disasters

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Caribbean's mountain chicken frog on brink of extinction with only 21 left

The most recent survey saw 28 conservationists from 11 organisations spend a total of 960 hours over 26 nights searching for the frog. Invasive species, climate change and pollution continue to threaten the future of the culturally significant frog

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      Once found widespread across seven Caribbean islands, the mountain chicken frog, is on the verge of complete extinction from the Caribbean.

      A series of ecological disasters has reduced its former healthy, stable population of hundreds of thousands of amphibians to a total of 21 frogs, according to a most recent survey.

      The rapid and shocking decline of the mountain chicken frog officially named Giant Ditch frog has stunned biologists who believe it is one of the fastest eradications of a wild animal ever recorded.

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