Scientists were trying to figure out why many frogs where dying. ”We are working as hard as we can to find and identify frogs before the disease reaches them, and to learn about a disease that has the power to ravage an entire group of organisms,” said Roberto Ibanez, research scientist at STRI and local director of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project. By working really hard, scientist have figured out the solution. Since 2005 research institutions and zoos from Panama and the United States have scrambled to collect healthy frogs east of the infected area to save them from extinction. A fungal disease called chytridiomycosis is the cause for all these frogs dying. This disease is devastating highland frogs in Central Panama and spreading across the country to the east. Scientist are working every day to find a cure for this fungal disease.
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