Action required: Invasive fungus is killing European salamanders
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 12:02
in Biology & Nature
A new fungal disease brought in from Asia is threatening European salamanders. Once the amphibians become infected, they die within a brief period of time, as biologists of the universities of Zurich and Ghent have shown in a Nature paper. Because saving the infected populations is still not possible, Switzerland has preventively imposed an import ban for salamanders and newts.