How Eating Frog Legs Is Causing Frog Extinctions

The demand for frogs is even greater in the European Union, which imports an annual average of 4,600 metric tons of frog legs, mostly to Belgium (53 percent), France (23 percent) and the Netherlands (17 percent).

These numbers come from a new report, "Canapés to Extinction: The International Trade in Frogs' Legs and Its Ecological Impact" (pdf), released July 26 by the wildlife conservation groups Pro Wildlife, Defenders of Wildlife and the Animal Welfare Institute. Read the full report here.

Source: by John Platt,  Scientific American, Richard Dawkins Foundation.