Bosnian alpine newts are a threatened subspecies, they’ve all but disappeared from the small resort they call home, which became a tourist attraction in the 1950s. The decision to stock a lake with predatory fish almost sealed the fate of the tiny, little creatures, but now a herpetologist and his student volunteers are fighting for the newts’ survival. (AP video by Almir Alic)
Conservationists fight to save threatened Bosnian alpine newt from the brink
Bosnian alpine newts are a threatened subspecies, they’ve all but disappeared from the small resort they call home, which became a tourist attraction in the 1950s. The decision to stock a lake with predatory fish almost sealed the fate of the tiny, little creatures, but now a herpetologist and his student volunteers are fighting for the newts’ survival. (AP video by Almir Alic)