International efforts to save amphibious species from threats of extinction are ready to take a leap forward, University of Otago scientist Dr Phil Bishop said.
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AN ALLIANCE of European local authorities, governments, US film stars, Japanese shops, soft drink companies and Russian foundations have stepped in to prevent oil companies from extracting 900 million barrels of crude oil from one of the world’s most biologically rich tracts of land.
To coincide with Leap Day (February 29th) 2012, Amphibian Ark is launching a new international event, Leaping Ahead of Extinction: A celebration of good news for amphibians in 2012.
The chance discovery of a previously thought to be extinct species of frog has led James Cook University researchers to believe amphibians may have found a way to survive a devastating and fatal infection.
Bullock’s false toad (Telmatobufo bullocki), a rare and elusive species not seen since 2005, has been spotted in the Nahuelbuta mountain range in the Bío Bío and Araucanía Regions of Chile.
CONTRACTORS working on a £500,000 ($813,950.00) replacement water supply scheme are to get lessons in recognizing natterjack toads.
Terry Jones, who has a soft spot for amphibians after playing Mr Toad in the 1996 Wind in the Willows film, is championing a frog-friendly research project.
A species of tiny toads, which quickly became extinct in the wild after it was discovered in Tanzania, is thriving in a laboratory at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).
A 26-year-old Sheboygan man was charged Monday with two counts of child abuse for allegedly slapping two young boys who allowed his pet frog to temporarily escape.
The next time you take a stroll by a bog, listen for the Pine Barren Tree frog’s song.
The frog (Hyla andersonii) lives in three areas of the southeastern United States; New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Sandhills of North and South Carolina, and the Florida Panhandle and adjacent south Alabama.
MUMBAI: After scouring forests and marshlands across the nation trying to locate rarely sighted amphibians, wildlife researchers and naturalists, who are part of the Lost Amphibians of India (LAI) initiative, will share their findings today at a press conference in Navi
Jonathan Trouern-Trend, an intelligence sergeant with the Connecticut National Guard, was at the latrine of the U.S. military base near Al Bakr, Iraq, when he made a discovery: a Lemon-Yellow Tree Frog, one of Iraq’s eight species of amphibians, was sharing the bathroom with him. According to Trouern-Trend, the frog had likely been
In an era in which frog populations have been declining around the world, for as-yet-unclear reasons, there is a positive story about frogs emerging in the shadow of the Sellwood Bridge.
Our long cold rainy spring finally warmed up enough by May to encourage frog
A microscopic chytrid fungus is causing massive declines in frog populations all over the world and even the extinction of certain species. Together with colleagues from Europe and the USA, researchers from the University of Zurich present methods as to how
Habitat loss is generally considered to be a negative process, causing population isolation, edge effects, and extinctions. However, a new study suggests that habitat degradation can sometimes have a positive effect. Last week, a paper in PNAS showed that habitat loss may actually suppress the spread of a deadly disease in some amphibians
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