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YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Yosemite National Park had a threatened taxon reintroduced to the parkland connected Tuesday, the San Francisco Zoo said.
The San Francisco Zoo announced that they are excited to merchandise the zoo-reared Yosemite toads backmost to Yosemite National Park.
According to the National Park Services' website, the toad was listed arsenic a federally threatened taxon owed to their wide colonisation decline. Yosemite National Park has been monitoring the toad populations crossed the parkland since 2009.
Zoo officials accidental that implicit the past respective years, SF Zoo's conservation squad has been raising hundreds of tiny important amphibians from the tadpole stage. They accidental that the Yosemite toads is simply a taxon lone recovered successful the Sierra Nevada, for the intent of reintroducing them to the country of Yosemite they were past seen in.
According to zoo officials, the toad was past seen 11 years ago, erstwhile the Rim Fire destroyed overmuch of their habitat.
Zoo officials accidental the task to reintroduce the federally threatened toad is slated to instrumentality spot implicit the people of up to 5 years successful an effort to re-establish a self-sustaining population.
According to zoo officials, 118 zoo-reared toads were transported via chopper to a meadow this taxon formerly occupied. They accidental National Park Service teams volition show and way the toads done a vigor telemetry project.
