Washington, DC/Munich—International wildlife conservation groups Pro Wildlife, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Animal Welfare Institute, issued a report today titled Canapés to Extinction: The ...

The popularity of the famous French delicacy of cuisses de grenouille, or frogs’ legs, is threatening the existence of certain frog species, a group of more than 500 environmental campaigners has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The consumption of frog legs, a delicacy in France and Belgium, is “driving species to extinction,” a German conservationist group ...

The European Union is the world’s largest consumer of frogs’ legs from wild-caught species, most of them imported from Indonesia, according to a group of conservationists and researchers. A lack of ...

Between 2010 and 2019, total imports of frog’s legs into the EU numbered 40.7 million kg, which equals to up to roughly 2 billion frogs. While Belgium is the main importer, France is the main consumer ...

Millions of wild frogs are killed and exported to the EU each year, but experts say there is little transparency around the trade, leading to inhumane practices and population declines of ...