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The Betic midwife toad is found in a number of isolated and fragmented populations around the mountains of southeastern Spain, occurring at altitudes of up to 2,140 metres above sea level. Females lay a string of eggs that the male wraps around his hind legs, carries until they are ready to hatch, and finally deposits in a pool of water where the tadpoles remain for up to a year. It is threatened by loss of suitable breeding habitat through excessive water withdrawal, droughts and the modernisation of agricultural practices leading to the abandonment of cattle troughs, which used to provide good breeding habitat. Leer más.

El ferreret o sapo partero balear (Alytes muletensis) es un endemismo de las Islas Baleares. Desde tiempos de los romanos la introducción de especies ha hecho que su distribución quede restringida a remotos torrentes en la Sierra de Tramontana. Tras el exitoso plan de reintroducción de la especie todo parecía estar mejorando, hasta que en 2004 descubrimos la presencia del hongo Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis en unas pocas poblaciones. Leer más.