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Toad saved from extinction

London: One of the world's strangest animals, the Mallorcan midwife toad, has been rescued from the brink of extinction. The success provides conservationists with a rare boost to their hopes that amphibians — whose numbers are declining alarmingly across the world — can be saved from oblivion. Researchers based at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Jersey announced last week that the toad had been removed from biologists' "critically endangered" category: it is now rated as merely `vulnerable'.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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