Ghost Frog vs 2010 FIFA World Cup

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EDGE Blog (Zoological Society of London, UK) May 6th, 2010 01:02 AM: Ghost Frog vs 2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is here. Everybody is excited and is counting down the days to the kick-off. Will South Africa be able to host such a huge event? Cape Town will be one of the main venues for the tournament and are home of the iconic Table Mountain. The mountain is the main tourism attraction in the Cape Town with over 4 million visitors annually. Not a lot of people realise that this mountain is also the home to South Africa’s most threatened amphibian, the critically endangered Table Mountain Ghost Frog (Heleophryne rosei). How will the world cup affect this frog?

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I am glad that EDGE blog mentioned the probable impact that the world soccer event in South Africa will have on the ghost frogs. However, there is another critically endangered frog in the Cape Town area that could also be affected - the Micro Frog (Microbatrachella capensis).