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English | June 17th, 2025 | ISBN: 1635769965 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 10.23 MB
The Costa Rican cloud forest, a mysterious amphibian killer, and a vanished species: with support from Leonardo DiCaprio's Re:wild campaign, twin documentarians and environmental writers follow their father's footsteps into the heart of the modern extinction crisis.
As young boys, Trevor and Kyle Ritland were fascinated by the magnificent golden toad of Costa Rica, a brilliant species their biologist father showed them in his projector's slide shows. Native to only one wind-battered ridgeline high on the continental divide above the cloud forests of Monteverde, thousands of golden toads would congregate for a few weeks each year in ephemeral pools among the twisted roots to mate, deposit their offspring, and retreat again beneath the earth. But from one year to the next, the toads disappeared without a trace; the last of them vanished more than thirty years ago. Since then, only rumors remain-alleged sightings by local residents, which beg the question: could the golden toad still be alive?