Extinct In The Wild, Wyoming Toad Or Baxter's Toad

2004Wyoming

"The Wyoming toad was once abundant in the Laramie Basin... Reasons for the toad's decline remain uncertain, but probably include the synergistic effects of aerial pesticides, habitat alteration, predation, disease and the continuing loss of genetic diversity as their numbers decrease... It was thought to be extinct by the mid-1980s, until a single population was discovered in 1987 and recovery efforts began... Since 1995, 14 zoos and two US Fish and Wildlife Service facilities in Wyoming have successfully reproduced Wyoming toads for reintroduction, with a total of 147,598 tadpoles, toadlets and toads released as of 2011. The Wyoming toad is currently known to exist in the wild at only two sites, Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge and one federally designated Safe Harbour site within its historical range."

"Fighting Extinction." WAZA: World Association of Zoos and Aquariums2012:33. .

USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Credit Sara Armstrong. Wyoming Toad (Bufo Baxteri Syn. Anaxyrus Baxteri) at Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming, USA. 12 Aug. 2012.<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bufo_baxteri-3.jpg>.