(Crohn)-The Oakland Zoo has issued its frog made of 1,000 yellow legs in the California wild this week, which represents a milestone for the original type of re-type of extinction.
Wildlife experts in the zoo works for a decade to save the types of frog, which were almost eliminated through a fatal fungal disease, chytrid.
On Tuesday, the Oakland Zoo crew transferred 43 yellow frogs from a helicopter to a launch site in Laurel Lake in Sikoya and the Kings Canyon National Park.
“The launch of 1000Y Mountain yellow frog is a major milestone. It is a number of contemplation at the start of a program. “We need to maintain this movement, it will continue to help wildlife in the original California and make sure that these frogs do not disappear,” said Samantha Samons, director of the wildlife recovery program at the Oakland Zoo.
Yellow legs were one of the main species in high -height lakes. Zoo officials said they had suffered 90 percent decrease in the population due to the devastating effects of Chytrid fungi.
For its frog project, the Oakland Zoo worked with the research group in Mountain Lakes, Service Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service. Yellow legs are important because they play an important role in California environmental food networks, which act as prey to large animals, and like predators of predators.
Fruits, however, are fragile animals. Their penetration skin makes frogs easily affected by environmental changes. “This characteristic makes them excellent vital picnics, and alerts us to environmental pressures,” Oakland Park officials wrote.
As for the frog recovery program, the zoo collected three types of yellow-mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Dothil-Frozen. Again in Auckland, frogs were raised during their life cycle. During the “Froglet” stage, they underwent Chytrid antifungal treatments to protect against the virus once re -provided it to the wilderness. After treatment, it was marked for monitoring and their final volunteer was received before they were released in the wilderness.