And a big shout-out for the San Francisco Zoo!
By Cate Peters, Summer Intern July 9, 2024 - SFGATE
More than 100 toads flew over California last week on their way to a new home: a remote meadow in Yosemite National Park where the amphibians previously thrived but had not been seen in over a decade.
A helicopter transported 118 Yosemite toads from the San Francisco Zoo, where they were raised, to the national park about 180 miles away, where they have settled into their new habitat and will hopefully become a self-sustaining population in the wild over the next 5 years.
“It’s the first time anyone has ever raised this species in captivity and released them to the wild,” Rochelle Stiles, field conservation manager at the San Francisco Zoo, told SFGATE. “It’s just incredible. It makes what we do at the zoo everyday worthwhile.”
Rare animal reintroduced to Yosemite meadow for the first time
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