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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 April 2019)
Puddle jumpers, with gills instead of wings.
In Rize's Hemşin district, "northern striped salamanders" on the 'red
list' of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
because they are in danger of extinction worldwide, have been found
in a roadside puddle (!). Nuri Yazıcı saw the salamanders in the water
and notified the Nature Protection and National Parks Directorate,
along with academicians he knows at Karadeniz Technical University
(KTU) in Trabzon. The 36 salamanders in the puddle are now under
observation and protection.
IUCN 'Red List' (ouch!)
Yazıcı first noticed the salamanders in his vicinity 3 years ago and
just recently saw them in the roadside puddle. He explained that
"I had not seen this kind of creature before so they caught my
attention and I began to observe them over 3 years. When experts
told me that these salamanders are endemic to this area I was even
more pleased, thinking that I was doing the right thing by protecting
a special species. The salamanders living on the roadside are in danger,
so in order to keep people from coming and harming them we tried
to limit our visits to the site, to avoid attracking too much attention."
KTU zoology professor Dr. Ufuk Bülbül noted that the dimunition of
water sources in recent years has had a negative effect on amphibians,
which live both in water and on land. He said that "these creatures
lay their eggs in water. They have gills and the young grow up in the
water. When humans harm or destroy these water sources their
chances of living are extinguished, too. The 'teenagers' can flee to
the land but the larva cannot. These creatures need to be protected."
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