Amphibian Story
Kiki :My name is Kiki I’m a frog and I’m sad because the humans are destroying our habitat’s and most of my family has disappeared, we don’t know if they are alive or what happened with them, but we think that the humans that did it.
Kira: Hi, I'm the sister of Kiki.
Kira I'm SO SAD TOO because the humans are causing that we, as amphibians decline, the impact of the climate change make changes such as the ocean level, which causes flooding and erosion in low-lying and coastal areas and this affects us a lot.
Kiki: A long time ago, when I was a tadpole my uncle told me that, my family was so big more than now but the asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs killed many frogs too, so the huge diversity of frogs we see today is mainly a consequence of that catastrophe and now we can’t continue with our lives because the humans are behind us all the time and we are protecting each other, but is not enough. And if they continue with this we are going to lose and the humans will have the victory, so that means that our specie is going to be extinct.
Kira: Humans every day are damaging our natural habitat, the waters are polluted and at the same time, our natural resources are getting worse. We are declining, the humans don’t reason, they just do whatever they want for their benefit, but they don't think if this is the correct thing for animals like me. Our waters are not purified, we cannot live in these conditions, the other animals that live here are dying, the habitat is so damaged that we do not know if we are going to stay alive or become extinct.
Kiki: Also, humans experimented with us. They thought that Anurans might respond to changes in climate predicted by Hulme and Viner. They focus on two distinct groups of Neotropical Anurans: frogs that live and oviposit in leaf litter and frogs that congregate at ponds to breed. Increased temperature, increased length of the dry season, decreased soil moisture and this all will affect Neotropical frogs strongly.
Kira: They expect that these changes will directly affect frogs by changing reproductive success and breeding periodicity, and indirectly by altering the invertebrate prey base. The individual effects will likely translate into changes at the population and community levels. Also, let’s speculate on how climatic change will affect Neotropical amphibians that are restricted ecologically or geographically.
Kiki: And now we hope that everyone becomes aware of what they are doing.
Kira: I hope that all these changes do not bring us to the verge of extinction and we ask for all the species that are in this world not not become extinct and that humans become aware that if we disappear, they will be also harmed………
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