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Frogs: The Thin Green Line

  • April 2009
  • 1hr

  • Documentary
  • Family
  • TV Movie
  • Directed by

    Allison Argo,

    Daniel B. Greenberg,

    Fred Kaufman,

    An examination of the extinction threat faced by frogs, which have hopped on Earth for some 250 million years and are a crucial cog in the ecosystem. Scientists believe they've pinpointed a cause for the loss of many of the amphibians: the chytrid fungus, which flourishes in high altitudes. Unfortunately, they don't know how to combat it. Included: an isolated forest in Panama that has yet to be touched by the fungus, thus enabling frogs to live and thrive as they have for eons.