The national animal of Panama, the Panamanian golden frog, is currently extinct in the wild. In Southeast Michigan and Ohio, the invasive emerald ash borer has wiped out nearly the entire population of ash trees. And right here in Ann Arbor, hemlock trees have recently been threatened by the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid insect. 

But what do these different threatened and endangered species have to do with the University of Michigan? 

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