Re: SC10

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/3/14/worldupdates/2006-03-14T093801Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-240499-1&sec=Worldupdates

Vanishing toads could portend extinction crisis

Exotic frogs and toads are dying out in the jungles of Latin America, apparent victims of global warming in what might be a harbinger of one of the worst waves of extinction since the dinosaurs.

Accelerating extinctions would derail a United Nations goal of "a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss" by 2010. That target will be reviewed at a U.N. meeting of environment ministers in Curitiba, Brazil, on March 20-31.

"We are facing an extinction crisis," said Anne Larigauderie, head of Paris-based Diversitas which promotes research into life on the planet.