{"id":592782,"date":"2026-05-19T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:41:13","slug":"rare-frogs-arrive-at-london-zoo-from-ghana-in-conservation-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592782\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare frogs arrive at London Zoo from Ghana in conservation bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In November 2025, London Zoo also became the first institution in the world to breed the Atewa slippery frog in human care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Tapley, the zoo&#8217;s curator of reptiles and amphibians, said: &#8220;With both frog species facing an imminent risk of extinction, but limited experience in amphibian care and difficulties obtaining specialist equipment locally, it was decided that a population of the frogs should be moved to ZSL&#8217;s London Zoo to learn as much as possible about these species while we still have the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amphibian keeper Unnar Aevarsson also travelled to Ghana to help establish what conservationists say is West Africa&#8217;s first dedicated amphibian conservation facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers collected water samples and images of local vegetation to recreate the frogs&#8217; natural environment in both Ghana and London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservationists hope the programme will eventually allow captive-bred frogs to be reintroduced into protected habitats in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The frogs went on public display at London Zoo on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In November 2025, London Zoo also became the first institution in the world to breed the Atewa slippery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}