Conservation History
Jay Savage first discovered the toads in 1966. From their discovery in 1966 for about 17 years, and from April to July in 1987, over 1500 adult toads were seen. Only ten or eleven toads were seen in 1988, including one seen by Crump, and none has been seen since May 15, 1989, when Crump last saw the same solitary male toad that she had seen the year before.
In the period between discovery and disappearance, the golden toad was commonly featured on posters promoting the biodiversity of Costa Rica. There is a single anecdotal report from the 1970s of a golden toad in the mountains of Guatemala near the village of Chichicastenango, but this sighting has not been confirmed. Holdridge's Toad, which also was declared extinct in the 2000s, lived in the same forest in Costa Rica.
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