# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvgNiruMt3O
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8149701-centerforbiodiv-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/84e494db17.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-08-04T00:55:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

## Caption

BREAKING: A toad halts play on the golf course. ⛳ 

This year’s British Open golf championship was disrupted twice by some uninvited characters: first, activists protesting fossil fuels; then, one of Britain's rarest amphibians.

“The Open,” as the world’s oldest golf tournament is also known, was visited by a rare natterjack toad, a species protected in Europe. Play was stalled until the arrival of a Royal Liverpool Golf Club staffer with a license to handle the tiny creature.

U.S. player Brian Harman won the tournament — and a $3 million prize — but the natterjack cameo netted news headlines too, pointing to the plight of imperiled species worldwide. #StopExtinction #ThatsWild

Photo of natterjack toad by Frank Vassen/Wikimedia.

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thatswild, stopextinction

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