Long Beach Aquarium Releasing Endangered Frogs Back Into Wild

CBS Los Angeles

September 19, 2022

Critically endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs who were raised and cared for at Long Beach's Aquarium of the Pacific are being released back into their habitat in the Southern California mountains to help rebuild their populations, the aquarium announced today.

"The Aquarium's amphibian team has taken special care of these frogs over the past year, and we are very gratified to have had a hand in helping this local endangered species,'' said Brett Long, the Aquarium's curator of mammals and birds.

After the Bobcat Fire in 2020 that threatened the cold-water streams where the species lives, government wildlife agencies rescued the remaining mountain yellow-legged frogs and tadpoles from these areas and placed them with local institutions such as the Aquarium of the Pacific and other partner facilities.

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