Perhaps this animal does not tell you anything? <br />And for good reason, the golden toad, which is barely the size of a child's thumb, disappeared in the 1990s.<br />This species of amphibian lived in the forests of Monteverde in Costa Rica. <br />These toads came out a few days a year in the pools of this tropical forest to breed. <br />Unfortunately, the species became extinct due to global warming.<br />"About 99% of its population was lost in a single year." Dr. Alan Pounds, in the IPCC report <br />This is the first time that the extinction of a species has been attributed to this cause.<br />In the Monteverde region, the rainfall has been increasing for the last 50 decades and more erratic (alternating very rainy periods and very dry periods).<br />Thus, in the 1970s, there were about 25 dry days per year compared to an average of 115 days during the last decade.<br />Another change is that the fog that kept the moisture in during the dry season has been reduced by about 70%.<br />According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, climate change would threaten about 12,000 species of which nearly 6,000 would be in the process of extinction.
