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More people eat frog legs than you think – and humans are harvesting frogs at unsustainable rates

  • Written by H. Resit Akcakaya, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
imageAnatolian water frogs (_Pelophylax spp_) could become locally extinct in parts of Turkey due to over-harvesting as food. Kerim Çiçek, CC BY-ND

Amphibians such as frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, are the world’s most threatened group of vertebrates. Of the 6,800 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation...

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