Litoria booroolongensis

Reintroduction programs are being undertaken. Ex situ programs: Two geographical populations have been established at Taronga Zoo, Sydney (www.taronga.org.au) with an additional population at the Amphibian Research Centre (www.frogs.o
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Amphibian Husbandry Experts

...illustrations, 137 colored sheets, 30 b/w graphics, and it contains 651-pages. http://biblioteca.udla.edu.ec/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f29$002fSD_ILS:29363/ada;qu=ECUADOR&ic=true&te=ILS&ps=300 http://www<
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Brian Kubicki

established the Costa Rica Amphibian Research Center, a small private and family-operated biological research project that is dedicated to studying, understanding, and conserving Costa Rica’s humid forest amphibians. After Read More

Arturo Muñoz Saravia

...Bolivia, just in search of frogs. We learned to identify them with a black and white copy of an amphibian field guide. To make matters more interesting, the field guides...
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Husbandry Standards

...exported, to practice safe husbandry. See The Manual for Control of Infectious Diseases in Amphibian Survival Assurance Colonies and Reintroduction Programs for best practice biosecurity guidelines. Furthermore, we highly recommend...
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Bufo nebulifer

Species name: Bufo nebulifer Common name: Coastal Plains Toad or Gulf Coast Toad Red List status: Least Concern (http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/54714/0) Distribution: Found in a wide variety of habitats along the Gulf...
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Benjamin Tapley

...dynamics study at the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station with the Gerry Martin Project in one of the wettest places on the planet. I firmly believe that ex situ management has...
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Husbandry Nanotraining Videos

...inventories and population monitoring protocols, with recommendations of technical references that have more detailed information. Biodiversity inventories and field monitoring (for example to track trends in a focal population or...
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Global Amphibian Declines, Loss of Genetic Diversity and Fitness: A Review

...genetic variability. Indeed, ongoing loss of genetic variation might be an important underlying factor in global amphibian declines. Keywords: amphibian conservation; fitness; genetic diversity; genetic drift; inbreeding Full article: http://www.mdpi.comRead More

Calls for Action

complete restoration of ecosystems is possible in the future.” 2005 IUCN ACS Declaration: “The ACAP recommends prioritized … captive survival assurance programs … to buy time for species that would...
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