AArk Newsletter

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Conservation Grant winners

We’re very excited to announce four projects that are recent Amphibian Ark Conservation Grant winners: three new projects, and our first seed grant extension. We look forward to seeing great...
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Truong Nguyen

American Museum of Natural History in central Vietnam. Since then I aspired to become a herpetologist. I finished my doctoral research in 2011 at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig...
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1.6 million acres in 27 California counties set aside as frog habitat

...with about 90% of the impacts on new development. Of the total cost, $48.4 million of the cost is projected crop loss. julie.cart@latimes.com Copyright 2010 Los Angeles Times – http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/17/local/la
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Calls for Action

develop new amphibian programs and strategies through collaborative partnerships.” – Association of Zoos & Aquariums Amphibian Taxon Advisory Group’s Regional Collection Plan, 3rd edition, June 2014. Download the Amphibian Conser
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Amphibian Pods

a container at Centro K’ayra for Research and Conservation of Threatened Amphibians of Bolivia at the Alcide d’Orbigny Natural History Museum Exterior of a container at Centro K’ayra for Research...
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Conservation Needs Assessment workshops

Completed assessments and recommendedconservation actions can be found in theConservation Needs Assessment program at www.ConservationNeeds.org Amphibian Ark staff help coordinate ex situ programs implemented by partners around the wo
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Cryptobranchus alleganiensis

...of salamanders but to also scale up global salamander conservation, education and research efforts. Learn more by visiting www.yearofthesalamander.com. Submit your observations of this species to iNaturalist and they will...
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Founder Animals

over-looked when new programs are established. Amphibian Ark recommends that at least twenty pairs of animals (or groups of individuals) are collected as founder animals. Ideally these would be unrelated...
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Archey’s Frog

Leiopelma archeyi, commonly known as Archey’s Frog, is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM as ‘Critically Endangered’. Archey’s Frog is a small green-brown frog found only in...
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