The population of the mountain chicken frog, once abundant in the Caribbean, has dropped by over 99% in 20 years due to a deadly fungal disease. CNN values your feedback 1.

Banner image caption: Mountain Chicken Frog (Leptodactylus fallax). Image by Josh More / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED). Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a senior staff writer for Mongabay.

The mountain chicken frog (Leptodactylus fallax) was once considered Dominica's unofficial national dish, according to locals.

Mountain chickens used to be found on several islands in the Lesser Antilles, but now only occur on Dominica and Montserrat. The species was once abundant on these two islands, commonly hunted and ...

Conservationists around the world are calling for urgent efforts to save the critically endangered mountain chicken frog. It comes after a survey found only 21 of the frogs left in the wild.

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A frog that has been cooked and eaten for decades on the Caribbean island of Dominica is on the verge of becoming extinct, but there is now a frantic push to try to save it. The mountain chicken ...