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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Maryam Kara

Endangered froglets born at London Zoo after 7,000 mile journey

A newborn Darwin’s frog at London Zoo - (Benjamin Tapley / ZSL)

More than 30 endangered froglets have been born at London Zoo, following a 7,000-mile rescue mission that saw their parents retrieved from a fungus-threatened native habitat.

The Darwin’s frog, named after the Victorian naturalist who discovered them, faces extinction due to the introduction of the deadly chytrid fungus to their native habitat.

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