One of world's rarest toads bred in captivity for first time in Manchester

Programme may help to ensure the survival of the critically endangered variable harlequin toad

One of the world's rarest toads has been bred in captivity for the first time, thanks to the scientists at Manchester Museum.

The critically endangered variable harlequin toad, Atelopus varius, lives deep in the central American rainforests of Panama and Costa Rica, breeding only in turbulent streams filled with stones and boulders on which they lay their eggs.