This is one research assistant position that doesn’t require a new degree or any super-specialized skills:
According to the IUCN, more than one-third of the world’s 6,000 amphibian species are threatened with extinction. Their permeable skins make them sensitive to environmental changes, including habitat destruction, climate change and water pollution caused by fertilizer runoff and pesticides.
“It’s the canary in the coal mine kind of thing,” said James Sirch, education coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and leader of the chapter co-hosted by the museum and Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, Conn. As the environment changes, the frogs will let us know, he said.
So… what exactly does a volunteer (would that be you?) have to do? Check the answer to that on the next page…
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