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["loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>]

Heron,

The decline in anphibians may have multiple causes.  Although the decline
does not include every species, it is worldwide.   When I was a kid growing
up near the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica, the Golden Toad
(Bufo periglenes, or something like that) bred by the zillions in cloud
forest pools.  I kept them in a terrarium.  Although the entire habitat
was/is stringently protected, the toad has not been seen for around 15
years.  It seems odd to have played with a now extinct species--sort of like
juggling passenger pigeons I suppose.

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heron Breen" <breen@fedcoseeds.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] "Roundup" effects


>
> Hi Friends,
> The Organic Consumer Association's online paper recently ran a blurb about
Roundup
> being extremely lethal to amphibians. Apparently the tests were supposed
to show
> its effects on algae, but the results were obvious as scientists continued
the
> study. Atrazine has also been recently found to be deadly to amphibians.
Tadpoles
> are the most affected stage of development in both cases. I would be
makeing a leap
> of intelligence to suppose herbicides could be at least partly responsible
for the
> decline in amphibians we all have read so much about in the last few
years...What
> do you think?
> Heron Breen
> zone 4, Maine
>
>
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