{chapter thirteen}

l  fact of endangered frogs

l  connection from All Over Creation to The Six Extinction

-- are you actually helping?

-- contact zone –people, people, plants

l  sudden disappear of frog

l  mass extinction

l  accessibility to general public

l  why are they dying? did we do this? did they do this? –speaking from outside

l  p13 fungus

l  (all the volunteers are frog lovers)

l  p14 “something awfully sad about the painted green hills and the fake waterfall”

-- taking creatures from nature to peoples’ space

l  extinction happening rapidly

l  “great survivors”

-- you can go out and find extinction

l  are we “madmen”? indirectly killing them?

Why did E. Kolbert choose to open her book with the story of her investigation into Golden Frogs, and their extinction?

• Sets the tone of the rest of the book in terms of our unconscious ability to shape the enviornments we place orselves in with catestrophic consequences for the native species of these regions. 
• It asks the question of how the fungus wiping out the frogs got to Panama, and provides clues as to the conclusions the reader should draw in regards to its origin (i.e., WE CAUSED THIS!!!!)
• First found out about the frogs from a children's magazine, which painted a very different portrait of the reality of their extinction
• Builds from little anecdotes to a devestating conclusion of the inevitability of their eventual extinction