Meet the tiny Crater Lake newt Oregon Zoo conservationists are fighting to save from extinction

Last August, the Mazama newt — an amphibian species found only in Crater Lake — moved into the Oregon Zoo’s conservation lab ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Crater Lake Newt Advances Toward Endangered Species Protections

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...
SFGate

'Dire situation': Nonprofit sues to protect species only found in Crater Lake

The Mazama newts are a unique subspecies of newts. They evolved over hundreds of years in Oregon’s Crater Lake after being cut off from tributaries, and can’t be found anywhere else in the world as a ...