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Less than 1,000 Pehuenche Spiny-chest Frogs are left in the wild—and on Monday, August 10, the Chilean government may approve a catastrophic plan to destroy the heart of their only known habitat. This Critically Endangered amphibian lives nowhere else on Earth except the Pehuenche Valley in the high Andes of Chile and Argentina. Now this species is faced with one of its greatest threats yet: a proposed binational power transmission project. This development would push the species to the brink of extinction. Conservationists are not asking for the transmission project to be stopped. They are asking for it to be built where it does not put a Critically Endangered species at even greater risk. On Monday, Chile will decide the project’s fate. We are fighting the clock to protect this species… The Pehuenche Spiny-chest Frog has evolved to survive in cold mountain streams and alpine meadows. Protecting this species means protecting an entire ecosystem that is vital for biodiversity, fresh...

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