ALIVE Newsletter No.90Topic

Stop Extinction of Wild Animals

A recent news report reported that an elementary school student in Kanagawa prefecture found a fossil of a 120-million-year old frog. Frogs are important model organisms throughout the history of science. They have lived through dramatic environment and climate changes on earth. According to the most updated CITES Red List of 2009, about 30% of the world amphibians are threatened by extinction. Frogs are the most threatened species of amphibians on earth.

The extinction of species is rapidly advancing. It seems like it never stops. All the living things on Earth are the beautiful creations of history and mother nature. Destroying these creations is one of the biggest crimes that mankind can commit.

Fusako Nogami
Head of Publication and Editor