KCTS Exclusive! California Tiger Salamander Massacre

www.oaecwater.org Special Report on the slayings of rare California Tiger Salamanders on a Sonoma County Road, and one easy thing you can do to save the rest of them! from Center for Biological Diversity: “SAVING THE CALIFORNIA TIGER SALAMANDER With its wide mouth charmingly outlined in yellow, the California tiger salamander always looks like it’s smiling. But this beautiful amphibian is a discriminating species that can only thrive in unique — and now extremely rare — habitats. As California’s vernal pools, grasslands, and oak woodlands disappear, the tiger salamander has fewer and fewer reasons to grin. The species’ plight is particularly extreme in Sonoma County, where development threatens 95 percent of remaining salamander habitat, and the Santa Barbara population — although it was luckily listed as federally endangered in 2000 — is still on the verge of winking out.” It will take only 45 seconds of your time to contact the state and ask them to keep the endangered status of the California Tiger Salamander! See how at www.oaecwater.org (no salamanders were hurt in the production of this report)

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