By Sabri Ben-Achour
BBC News
Frogs matter – they play a vital role in the food chain, and some have been found to produce chemicals that cure human diseases. But a fungus dubbed ”the amphibian smallpox” is making many species extinct. So scientists are mounting a rescue operation.
It’s the middle of the night in the rainforests of central Panama.
Biologist Brian Gratwicke slogs through a stream with a group of researchers looking for little green blobs sitting on leaves.
”Anything that makes the leaf hang unusually,” he says.
A colleague spots a pair of tiny eyes gleaming in the beam of a torch. But it’s a false alarm – probably just a spider, and spiders are not the team’s quarry.
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