Toughie (frog)

[3] Toughie was captured as an adult in Panama in 2005, when researchers went on a conservation mission to rescue species from Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a fungus deadly to amphibians.

Toughie was one of "several dozen" frogs and tadpoles of the same species to be transported back to the United States.

Visitors to the Garden are not allowed to visit the frogPOD, as it is used to house critically endangered animals.

After the female died, the only other known specimen in the world was a male, leaving Toughie no other options of reproducing.

[6] The other male, who lived at the Zoo Atlanta, was euthanized on February 17, 2012, due to health concerns.

Having him here is a constant reminder of what can potentially happen to other species if we don't continue the conservation work that we do here at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

To promote the film and the extinction crisis, a 30-story series of photographs was projected onto the side of the United Nations Building in New York City in September 2014.