...practitioner should strive to first conduct or support phylogenetic and morphological analyses to determine which populations are distinct and require independent management. Examples of such analyses from the amphibian community...

for release into an existing population of conspecifics as part of the recommended conservation action. Ex Situ Research - A species currently undergoing, or proposed for, specific applied research that...

...demonstrates evolution compressed into just a few weeks and it sparks our imagination. Today, amphibians can be found in enormous variety and occupy a wide range of water and land...

...the spray zone wetlands. However, failures of this sprinkler system in 2003 combined with an outbreak of chytridiomycosis in the toads, or possibly other factors, were enough to cause serious...

...listed as ‘Extinct’ on the IUCN Red List. Amazingly, new research on this rediscovered species shows that its closest relatives are not current living frogs but prehistoric frogs, extinct for...

...Conservation Act, due to its very limited geographic range. In 2007, the Perth Zoo in Western Australia began a husbandry research program for this species (eggs collected from the wild...

...Ethics Committee, as well as on numerous animal management committees. She has also been a trainer for the Center for Conflict Resolution at Syracuse University in New York, USA. She...

Be a salamander and newt hero! Get your pets screened for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans – you’ll be helping salamanders! If you have a pet salamander or newt, or are simply an...

...adding more Advocate profiles over the coming months. Want to recommend an additional Amphibian Advocate? If you would like to nominate an Amphibian Advocate to be featured on our web...

...supported by the Balsa. In collaboration with Doñana Biological Research Station from Spain, we have also started a new research program to gather ecophysiology parameters in order to provide an...