Colombia: 'FARC Frog' Caught up in Colombian Conflict

Mar 17, 2016 | Roser Toll, Agence France-Presse
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The little green frog's natural camouflage reminded the professor who discovered it of the guerrilla fighters hiding out in the very same Colombian forest. Conservationists fear the little frog is extinct—collateral damage in the government's increasingly promising peace process with the guerrillas, whose insurgency had the beneficial side-effect of protecting rural areas from deforestation and agriculture.

The little green frog's natural camouflage reminded the professor who discovered it of the guerrilla fighters hiding out in the very same Colombian forest.

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