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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProtect Native Salamanders! (E action) Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (or Bsal) has a 96% mortali
http://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ars/petition/DOW-SaveOurSalamanders?
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife
An amphibian apocalypse. That's how scientists are describing what could happen to hundreds of species in the U.S. if a deadly disease makes it to North America.
Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (or Bsal) has a 96% mortality rate. It has already decimated salamanders in Europe, and its next stop could be here.
With no one checking for the disease in salamanders coming into the U.S., we will have no way of knowing if or when it has arrived until it is too late. And with 190 native species of salamanders, we have a lot to lose. We must make sure that only salamanders free of Bsal are allowed into the country.
Join us in demanding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service take emergency action to suspend salamander trade into the U.S. until a quarantine and testing system is set up to protect our native wildlife!
PLEASE sign at the link.
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Protect Native Salamanders! (E action) Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (or Bsal) has a 96% mortali (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Oct 2015
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left on green only
(1,484 posts)1. I Signed! eom
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)2. K and R! Thanks for the link.
I signed. This is very important, salamanders are a very important link in the North American food web and an indicator species.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)3. Why would there be salamanders imported?
Is this a part of the aquarium pet trade?
I remember playing with tiger salamanders as a kid. They fell into my grandmother's window wells. We would rescue them, handle them just a bit, and release them in the swamp behind har garden.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)4. Done
Thanks for alll you do, Steve!
At my home, before the current drought (California) I used to find these guys in my yard, California giant salamander, usually under a wood-pile. Haven't seen any in a few years, I hope they come back! Biodiversity is precious.
shenmue
(38,501 posts)5. Signed and shared
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)6. Why did I picture this?
catchnrelease
(1,941 posts)7. Signed and shared
Thanks for the heads up and link.
F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)8. My brother taught me about this.
Our planet is seriously in trouble.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)9. Signed - Thanks! nt