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white lipped green tree frog :: Article Creator It Takes A Village To Save A Frog A Togo slippery frog rests in grass. Herp-Ghana The Togo slippery frog was thought to be extinct. Over five millennia, human hunting, fishing and habitat destruction decimated populations. But in April 2007, toward the end of an arduous three-week expedition to assess the amphibians of southern Ghana and western Togo, Ghana's first formally trained herpetologist, Caleb Ofori-Boateng, finally spotted one. The frog sat in a shallow stream by a forest near the Togolese village of Missahohé. After that first recorded sighting since 1980, scientists documented a few more Togo slippery frogs in the Togo-Volta region of Ghana. But Ofori-Boateng was not present for this leg of the expedition, and for years, he wondered if he would ever get to see the frog in his home country. Ofori-Boateng's dream finally came true on a late evening in March 2013, when he spotted a...