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We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested. Did these cause mass deaths?

By Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney
Damian Lettoof, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife Ecotoxicology, CSIRO
Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time. Pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species.The Conversation


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