Brian Kubicki

Craugastoridae and Eleutherodactylidae), and poison frogs (Family Dendrobatidae). This experience has resulted in numerous publications on the amphibians of Costa Rica, including species rediscoveries, new species descriptions, and two bookRead More

Cybele Lisboa

...how zoos were important to saving them. Since then, she has been completely committed to this cause. In 2008, Kevin Zippel came to Brazil to bring the Amphibian Ark campaign...
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Conservation Grants

AArk has offered grants since 2009, predominantly to support newly created ex situ programs for species that have been assessed as in need of urgent rescue. We welcome applications from...
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Southern Corroboree Frog

...artificial pools which are free of chytrid fungus, thereby avoiding tadpoles potentially being infected by the fungus during their most vulnerable growth stages. Scientists also are hoping to develop new...
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Amphibian Decline Statistics

...losing 15 million acres of forest between 2000 and 2012. (Conservation International, 2020. www.conservation.org/stories/11-deforestation-facts-you-need-to-know). 10%: portion of amphibian species threatened with extinction that the global zoo comm
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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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Rachel Rommel

Community Education Officer Rachel has been an amphibian advocate and herp enthusiast for most of her life, and has close to ten years of experience managing education and outreach programs...
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Other Amphibian Documents

...the most endangered amphibians in North America. This very comprehensive book delivers a wide range of lessons and activities some of which are specific to the Houston Toad, and others...
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Amphibian Husbandry

...challenge in the history of humanity. Without immediate captive management as a stopgap component of an integrated conservation effort, hundreds of species could become extinct. The outcome of the AArk...
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Resolving amphibian husbandry issues

...manage and understand group breeding systems (polyandry/polygamy) as well as allow targeted genetic management for conservation breeding programs. (See AArk Newsletter 44, September 2018, page 16). New guidelines aim to...
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