Toad in Trouble

The Houston Zoo has partnered with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Texas State University, and Texas Parks and Wildlife in order to recover the Houston toad populations:

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• The zoo is a 501(c)(3) helping replenish the population

• They have released 775,000 Houston toad eggs into the wild, which were bred in a quarantine facility on the zoo’s property

• Zoo contains an entire facility just for the captive breeding program of the toad, run by two full-time specialists

• The Houston Zoo staff participates in outreach and educational presentations in order to inform the public

(Texas Organization for Amphibian Diversity, n.d.)

 

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