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    BBC News (London, UK) August 8th, 2010 08:03 PM: Hunt for 'extinct' frogs begins

    A frog hunt like no other is about to begin, as conservationists scour the world for species thought to be extinct but which may just be hanging on.

    Over the next two months, missions will begin in 14 countries searching for species such as the golden toad, the hula painted frog and the scarlet frog.

    Amphibians are the most threatened animals on the planet, with one third of species at risk of extinction.

    Many have been eliminated by a fungal disease carried in water.

    The scientist leading the project, Robin Moore, said he believes some of the 100 amphibians targeted in the survey will turn up.

    "A couple of years ago when I was in Ecuador with a team of local scientists, we went in search of a species that hadn't been seen in 12 years," he told BBC News.

    "We weren't very hopeful that we'd find it, but after a day of searching we uncovered a rock and found one of these little green frogs.

    "Similar stories have started popping up of people finding frogs that we thought had gone; so it gives me hope that there are a lot out there that we think may have disappeared but may actually still be alive."

    Dr Moore, of Conservation International (CI), is organising the search for the Amphibian Specialist Group (ASG) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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    Well, I do hope they find Incilius periglenes. It is one of my favorite Bufonids. Maybe we will get lucky and they will find it, breed it, and eventually we can all have some. At the very least be able to see them in a zoo. One can dream.

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