![]() And the Great Barrier Reef, home to a rich diversity of life, is half the size it was 30 years ago. A cave west of Albany, N.Y., where bats usually thrive, is littered with carcasses. Suci, a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Cincinnati Zoo, is artificially inseminated in hopes of adding one more of her kind, which number only 100 across the globe (Suci herself died in March of this year). Along with other amphibians, it is being wiped out by a pervasive fungus, and what remains of the population is carefully cared for and monitored at the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center, a sort of Noah’s Ark for frogs. ![]() In the forests of Panama, the golden frog has almost completely disappeared. ![]()
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