Environment
Have Tasmanian beekeepers done a similar check?
While Rohr cautioned against extrapolating his study’s findings to humans, he said the study of creatures like frogs is important. Changes in an ecosystem’s biodiversity can reduce its ability to produce clean water and food and to buffer people from disease, he said. Second, he said, “amphibians are considered good indicators of threats to other organisms, canaries in the coal mine.”
Alison Bleaney