Giant Caribbean Mountain Chicken Frog On The Brink Of Extinction

Urgent action is needed to save one of the world's largest frogs from one of the world's most devastating wildlife diseases as the latest survey reveals just 21 individuals remain in the wild

A Critically Endangered Mountain Chicken Frog, Leptodactylus fallax. (Credit: Copyright by Ben Tapley, Zoological Society of London)

A global collaboration of conservation scientists is sounding the alarm to initiate urgent action to save one of the world’s largest frogs, which hovers on the brink of extinction. A recent survey revealed that only 21 individual mountain chicken frogs, Leptodactylus fallax, remain alive in one tiny refuge on the Caribbean Island of Dominica.