A Warning From The Golden Toad by Tim Flannery

The book uses the sudden disappearance of the brightly colored golden toad from a Costa Rican cloud forest as a vivid case study of a mounting global environmental crisis, tracing how climate shifts, emerging disease (notably chytrid fungus), and human-driven habitat changes combined to drive amphibian declines and signal broader ecosystem unraveling, and it argues for urgent scientific attention and policy action to avert further biodiversity loss.