LONDON: Scientists have revealed that a fungus is proving dangerous for global frog population putting the island’s 500 endemic frog species of Madagascar in danger.
The amphibian-rich islands of Madagascar, Borneo and New Guinea have remained conspicuously free of the Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) fungus, which has caused population crashes on every continent where amphibians occur.
But a Zoological Society of London (ZSL) team has discovered frogs carrying Bd in five areas in Madagascar between 2010 and 2014. In some places almost all frogs were infected.
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