Endangered spray toads return to Tanzania
August 20th, 2010By Maura O’Connor — Special to GlobalPost
Published: August 20, 2010 06:27 ET in Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania and NEW YORK — When it came to a choice between a hydropower dam that would provide electricity to one-third of Tanzania and a tiny endangered toad, the dam won.
But the Kihansi toad lives on thanks to the efforts of Tanzania and two American zoos.
One hundred of the critically endangered Kihansi spray toads, bred in laboratories in the United States, were returned to Tanzania last week where they will live in the area for the first time in 10 years.
