Guest guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 ya know..i can remember waaay back when..maybe late 70's..watching something on PBS..maybe life on earth..maybe nova....fer some reason i think david attenborough was the host(hence the life on earth guess)..anyways..it was some nature show on PBS..and they were showing some cloud forest in costa rica..and they had footage of these golden toads...looked more like tree frogs to me, but wotever... anyways..orangey golden amphibians..and i was totally enamoured... and that was that..i think i saw the show repeated again some years later..but...no more then about a year er two ago i heard about the toads again.... except they were saying that the toads were gone..extinct..several expeditions had turned up nary a tadpole.... and then they showed footage of the golden fellers..and it was the same footage i remembered as a kid... and nearly lost it..... (yeah i'm a wimp..so wot...) except now the film was all warped and didn;t age well at all sad tothink that the only knowledge we haveof these lil critters is some blurry video... World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the World Conservation Union at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Cloud forests are a source of water for the capital cities of Ecuador, Mexico, and Tanzania, as well as numerous other spots throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They also provide a home to hundreds of species found nowhere else on the planet. Cloud forests are particularly sensitive to climate change, but are also threatened by logging, agriculture, and construction. straight to the source: Science and Development Network, Lisa Kirseborn, 09 Feb 2004 <http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=1998> straight to the source: AlertNet, Reuters, 09 Feb 2004 <http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=1999> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 I remember watching that programme..They reckoned the likely extinction was down to the climate change caused through our interference.I felt pang of disappointment for the little fellows. - EBbrewpunx homesteadcafe ; homstead_solarium ; ESI-List ; eco_vegans ; TFHB ; Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:13 AM World's Cloud Forests Threatened ya know..i can remember waaay back when..maybe late 70's..watching something on PBS..maybe life on earth..maybe nova....fer some reason i think david attenborough was the host(hence the life on earth guess)..anyways..it was some nature show on PBS..and they were showing some cloud forest in costa rica..and they had footage of these golden toads...looked more like tree frogs to me, but wotever...anyways..orangey golden amphibians..and i was totally enamoured...and that was that..i think i saw the show repeated again some years later..but...no morethen about a year er two ago i heard about the toads again....except they were saying that the toads were gone..extinct..several expeditions had turned up nary a tadpole....and then they showed footage of the golden fellers..and it was the same footage i remembered as a kid...and nearly lost it.....(yeah i'm a wimp..so wot...)except now the film was all warped and didn;t age well at allsad tothink that the only knowledge we haveof these lil critters is some blurry video...World's Cloud Forests ThreatenedThe world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the World Conservation Union at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Cloud forests are a source of water for the capital cities of Ecuador, Mexico, and Tanzania, as well as numerous other spots throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They also provide a home to hundreds of species found nowhere else on the planet. Cloud forests are particularly sensitive to climate change, but are also threatened by logging, agriculture, and construction.straight to the source: Science and Development Network, Lisa Kirseborn, 09 Feb 2004<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=1998>straight to the source: AlertNet, Reuters, 09 Feb 2004<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=1999>To send an email to - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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