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.”
Frosted flatwoods salamanders spend most of their lives underground. Experts on the threatened species consider them enigmatic, and no one has been able to breed them in captivity until now. (Mark Mandica/Amphibian Foundation)
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