International Conservation Day 2025: The purpose of celebrating this day is the world The serious danger of the cold -blooded animals are being ran because of the loss of their habitat, toxic waste, pollutants and climate change.
The amphibians are a species of the family of vertebrates that have very specific physical characteristics. His skin is smooth, absent from scales, they also have a tail they use to swim. They live in the water and breathe through gills.
As soon as they develop, they already have lungs, four legs with interdigital membrane and they are able to live in both water and on earth. They breathe through the skin, they are oviparous and to feed they do it on small insects. It is the only vertebrate species that experiences a metamorphosis.
It is believed that amphibians were formed from the fish about 360 million years ago And that the reptiles were born there and then make way for other evolutionary species such as birds and mammals that we know today.
The amphibians play an important role in maintaining the right balance of ecosystems worldwide. One of the most important functions is to allow all the nutrients from the waters to terrestrial locations and that this in turn to prevent erosion to prevent erosion.
Contamination and climate change have been some of the most important factors of extinction of amphibians In most ecosystems on the entire planet.
International Conservation Day 2025
Donate April 27 It is the International Conservation Day 2025An event that is commemorated every last Saturday of April. And that is intended to arouse the interest of people in these living beings of enormous ecosystem importance that decrease in Franco because of the global And anthropogenic actions.
The amphibians are more than ever threatened by the climatic crisisBoth frogs, toads and salamanders are even in danger. Climate change has become the most important factor that brings amphibians to extinction, so it is increasingly necessary to protect their habitats and reduce CO2 emissions. And that is essential to take it in a way today, the International Conservation Day 2025.
Lack feathers, hair or scales that protect them, these creatures, able to live on earth and water, son particularly vulnerable to changes in your environment. That is why they can dry out quickly because of global warming or the disappearance of their humid reproductive areas.
Most frequent and intense storms, floods and increase in water level also threaten the habitats of amphibians. Especially since these changes are very fast, which prevents species that adapt to them. And not being able to overcome obstacles start a decrease that can end in extinction.
50% of the amphibians are qualified as ‘endangered species’
A great study of 2004 had already shown that these animals were the most endangered vertebrates on the planet. An update of this global study, based on the evaluation of 8,011 species concluded that the situation of the amphibians continued to deteriorate and that almost half has already been classified as ‘threatened’ (category that includes vulnerable species, threatened and in danger “criticism”) in the IUCN RED LIST.
The destruction and relegation of the various habitats is mainly linked to intensive agricultural or infrastructure construction and remains the most common threat to amphibians. Something we have to remember in the International Conservation Day 2025.
The now leading role of the climate in the negative dynamics that these animals influences is a great novelty, because according to experts Habitati disease were responsible for 91% of the degradation of the status of these species between 1980 and 2004, which only attributes 1% to the Climate change.
Get closer to extinction
In certain regions of Australia or Brazil, the serious droughts caused by climate change are serious by climate changeThose soil moisture and leaves need to protect their eggs.
But that does not only happen in external regions. Here in Spain we see that the south is being absorbed in the eyes. AND In areas such as Murcia and Almería, the number of amphibians is alarming.
The problem is that These animals play an essential role in the food chainBecause they are the support of birds, mammals and reptiles. Salamanders and tritons are the most affected species, with a threat concentrated in certain regions such as the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, Madagascar or Sri Lanka.
In reality, There are five types of salamanders who have been able to verify experts that they have experienced a serious deterioration in their state of preservationN. and this is due to fires and less moist soils, coupled to drought that have become more often and intense due to climate change.
Because the problem was caused by people, it is logical that we ensure giving a fulfilled solution. Not only because we remember the danger that these species will affect, International Conservation Day 2025but because If we continue like this, we will end life on the planet.