If you build it, the amphibians will come: Swiss researchers show new ponds boost species at risk

In a rare triumph in amphibian conservation, researchers found that creating hundreds of new ponds in the midst of a bustling Switzerland landscape strengthened amphibian populations there. The effort, in which citizen scientists built and monitored ponds for 20 years, helped nearly three-quarters of the region’s populations of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders rebound or […]

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