[HKMk23]

I think this map adequately explains why most posters see no local impact related to this topic. The impacted areas do not involve much of the United States, and in those areas that are within the U.S., each area involves less than four threatened species. Unless your areas of interest or expertise include amphibian species, you simply aren't likely to have noticed any local change.

[cogitator]

I think you are on-target with that assessment. I couldn't get the map to display on a page where I could see the image source, but your link did, so I'm showing the map below.

Number of species refers to the number of threatened species. Unfortunately the Caribbean islands are too small to be shown clearly in this global map.

[editor-surveyor]

"I think this map adequately explains why most posters see no local impact related to this topic"

Possibly three species? What we don't know is whether they are even ligitimate species, or if they are playing the same game as with the salamanders, where the alleged 'species' are visually, and physiologically identical, and are really just different 'families.'

We take good care of our frogs and salamanders at our place, because they eat the critters that eat us!