Save the amphibians

Not only for their mouse rescue duties. (via 3 Quarks Daily).

Campaigners are forming an Amphibian Survival Alliance, to raise $400m and carry through a rescue strategy.

More than a third of all amphibian species are said to be in peril.

In a policy statement issued in the journal Science, researchers blame a number of factors including habitat loss, climate change and disease.

Photo: BBC / Mendelson