6 rare frogs found in Haiti

Six frogs that haven’t been seen in more than 14 years have been rediscovered in Haiti. The frogs were found in one of the remote mountains in the country’s southwest in October.  The non-profit group has been funding expeditions around the world since July to search for 100 species of amphibians that haven't been seen in more than a decade. He said the massive earthquake that struck Haiti a year ago Wednesday, killing 230,000 people and leaving 800,000 homeless, has indirectly threatened many rare amphibian species in the struggling nation. Haiti is home to 49 native species of amphibians, many of them very rare, including 15 that are found nowhere else in the world, Conservation International reports. Less than two per cent of Haiti's original forest remains, and a lot of rare frogs are confined to two small patches of just a few square mile each: Massif de la Hotte, in the country's southwest, and Massif de la Selle, in the southeast near the capital of Port-au-Prince.