The Kihansi spray toad officially became extinct in the wild in 2004. Native to Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountain, the tiny toads disappeared abruptly within just a few years. Researchers have now ...

This year’s IUCN Red List has updated its assessment of the Kihansi spray toad, moving the species from Critically Endangered to Extinct in the Wild. With that another amphibian species has been lost ...

In a bold effort to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, one hundred Kihansi spray toads have been flown home to Tanzania after being painstakingly reared at the Bronx Zoo and ...

A tiny, vanished toad has returned home. About 2,000 Kihansi spray toads have been reintroduced into the Kihansi Gorge in Tanzania after the animal was declared extinct in the wild. This is the first ...

A tiny toad, previously found only under a 3,000 Tanzania waterfall, went extinct in the wild, but is thriving in a lab in Syracuse, NY. The Kihansi spray toad is little more than an inch in length. A ...

Conservation programs do incredible work and have done so for decades. Many animal and habitat conservation efforts, both ...

A species of tiny toads, which quickly became extinct in the wild after it was discovered in Tanzania, is thriving in a laboratory at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). ESF ...

The cargo wasn’t just precious – it was almost extinct. An official from the Wildlife Conservation Society‘s Bronx Zoo flew to Tanzania last week with some seriously exotic carry-on luggage: 100 rare, ...