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 […]

In unprecedented effort, more than 40 organizations from 13 countries come together to protect and restore harlequin toads, the jewels of South and Central America, hard hit by a deadly amphibian disease With first-ever action plan in place for harlequin toads, the Atelopus Survival Initiative is bringing together resources, decades of expertise and passion to […]

This fellowship supports early or mid-career scientists and conservationists in research-based professionaldevelopment that furthers amphibian conservation. This fellowship is not intended to help support graduate-student research. Proposals that address species research priorities indicated in the Amphibian Red List and/or the Amphibian Ark Conservation Needs Assessment (CNA), or thematic research priorities indicated in the Amphibian Conservation […]