21-05-2025
Habitat loss and climate change make it tough to be an amphibian. Some humans are helping
HONEOYE, N.Y. — On a rainy March evening, John Bateman puts on his boots and a headlamp and heads to a wetland cut through by a busy road. As he walks, he scans the pavement for spring peepers, toads, salamanders and newts making their slow way as they migrate to new habitat each spring, and leans down occasionally to help guide one across.