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The first response to reports of declining amphibian populations was the formation of the Declining Amphibian Population Task Force (DAPTF) in 1990. DAPTF led efforts for increased amphibian population monitoring in order to establish the extent of the problem, and established working groups to look at different issues.
A population that was once in the tens of thousands was down to a mere 3,000. [13] The largest known chorusing groups persist in Bastrop County, but the choruses monitored in Bastrop State Park showed a dramatic decline during the mid-1990s, with little recovery of those numbers since then. Importantly, that state park is the only public land ...
Blanchard's cricket frog: Found throughout Texas, except far West Texas and the Panhandle [31] NE Dryophytes arenicolor: Canyon tree frog: Isolated populations in arid environments and streambanks in Texas [32] LC [33] Dryophytes chrysoscelis : Cope's gray tree frog: Documented in east-central Texas [34] LC [35] Dryophytes cinereus: Green tree frog
Officials say the crawfish frog likely was at the site during that period, as well, and remained in place until the mid to late 1980s, when they "vanished suddenly and mysteriously, possibly ...
Aug. 28—For the fourth time, hundreds of endangered frogs were released into the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge with the intent to revitalize their population. The nearly 400 northern leopard ...
The Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged frogs were almost wiped out of Yosemite National Park. But these scientists mounted a wildlife comeback. 'The lakes are alive again': These frogs are back from near ...
The population of Morelet's tree frogs are also being affected due to a disease called Chytridiomycosis, which is an infectious disease that kills amphibians. Chytridiomycosis and habitat destruction are projected to cause the population to decline over 80% in the next 10 years. In some regions, the frogs have gone extinct completely.
Rio Grande leopard frog (Lithobates berlandieri), from Cameron County, Texas, USARio Grande leopard frogs grow from 2.2 to 4.5 inches (5.6 to 11.4 cm) in length. They are usually tan, brown, or pale green in color, with distinctive black spotting with prominent light-colored ridges down either side of their backs.