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)
Anatolian water frogs (_Pelophylax spp_) could become locally extinct in parts of Turkey due to over-harvesting as food. Kerim Çiçek, CC BY-NDAmphibians 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...