Conservationists pin hopes of the species’ survival on breeding the Caribbean island’s final known male and female in the wild In what could be a fairytale ending,conservationists are hoping to reunite the final two remaining wild mountain chicken frogs living on Montserrat and serve their species breed on the Caribbean island for the first time since 2009.
A project led by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust will next month take the final remaining female and “translocate” her into the territory of the final remaining male as part of a 20-year recovery scheme for the species, one of the world’s largest and rarest frogs that exists on just two Caribbean islands, or Montserrat and Dominica.
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Source: theguardian.com