Habitat destruction and disease are both well-documented causes of the decline of amphibians—among the most threatened animals on the planet—but a new paper analyzing two decades’ worth of data from around the world has found that climate change is emerging as one of the biggest threats to frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. The study was published […]

Today, a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology was released in honor of former ASG Co-Chair, Phil Bishop. While Phil’s research and conservation work was truly global, much of his focus in the last two decades was on the ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s endemic frogs (Leiopelma spp.), the subject of this […]

The Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA) and the Amphibian Specialist Group (ASG) are very pleased to announce a special issue of FrogLog dedicated to someone who is near and dear to our hearts: Phil Bishop. As you may know, Phil passed away early this year, leaving an enormous gap in amphibian conservation and an equally large […]

Madagascar is a hotspot of amphibian species richness, with over 380 native frog species, all of which are endemic to the island. However, of those species that have been assessed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , over half are categorised as either threatened or Data Deficient. Mantella cowanii – Cowan’s or harlequin mantella […]

A new species of nurse frog (genus Allobates) has been described from the Amazonian forests of Loreto, Peru, in the latest issue of the journal Zootaxa. This new species is named after Marcy Sieggreen, Curator of Amphibians for the Detroit Zoological Society (DZS) and responsible for overseeing the Detroit Zoo’s National Amphibian Conservation Center until […]