Editorial by Karen Lips "Save the frogs — and perhaps ourselves" published in Baltimore Sun

Tue, Sep 1, 2009

Karen Lips, Assistant Professor of Biology and Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology, published a commentary in the Baltimore Sun on September 1, 2009 urging lawmakers to get serious about saving amphibians from extinction and to create a national strategy to address the overall global species extinction crisis:

Amphibians are going extinct around the globe. As a scientist specializing in frogs, I have watched dozens of species of these creatures die out. The extinction of frogs and salamanders might seem unimportant, but this couldn't be further from the truth. These animals regulate their local ecosystems, consume and control populations of mosquitoes and other insects that spread disease, and potentially point the way to new drugs for fighting diseases such as cancer and HIV- AIDS. Their fate is inexorably linked to our own.

Read complete article Save the frogs —and perhaps ourselves  on the Baltimore Sun website