A win in the work to save a super-rare Georgia animal

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February 3rd, 2022

A wild frosted flatwoods salamander in gloved hands.
Frosted flatwoods salamanders were once more widespread in the Southeast, but they now live in two parks in Florida — the wild one shown here is in one of those — and a single wetland at the U.S. Army's Fort Stewart in Georgia. (Mark Mandica/Amphibian Foundation)

A conservation success is taking shape at an Atlanta non-profit. It’s an early step — but a major one — in the effort to save a super-rare Southern species from extinction.

It’s not a fuzzy or cuddly creature, or big and majestic, either.

But still, biologist Harold Mitchell said, “There’s something to be said for the little creepy crawlies.”

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