Saving Sagalla’s legless celebrity!
The EDGE Amphibians project has recently secured funding to start a conservation project for one of our highest priority species – the Sagalla caecilian…
Chasing ghosts
The second of our Fellows for EDGE amphibian species, Werner Conradie, tells us about the Critically Endangered frogs he is studying in South Africa….
First amphibian EDGE Fellow announced
Ashish Thomas, our first amphibian EDGE Fellow, tells you here a bit more about his chosen species and what he is doing towards its…
Happy SAVE THE FROGS DAY!
The 1st Annual Save The Frogs Day has arrived! Be a part of it and help us make the amphibian extinction crisis common knowledge…
Stock-take of UK amphibians and reptiles
Amateur wildlife watchers, including birdwatchers, gardeners, conservation volunteers and the general public, are being encouraged to take part in the UK’s first national ‘stock-take’…
SAVE THE FROGS DAY! 28th April 2009
Yes, amphibians are so special in so many ways that they have finally qualified for their own day! The United States-based charity SAVE THE…
The Moroccan spadefoot toad
We have just received this blog from EDGE Community member Philip de Pous, with an updated on his current work in Morocco: After ten…
Lake Oku – first weeks in the field
Here is an update from Thomas Doherty-Bone, who is working in Cameroon on EDGE Amphibian number 34, the Lake Oku clawed frog. Arrival in…
First footage of purple frog!
One of our focal EDGE amphibians – the purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) – has been caught on camera for the first time by EDGE-affiliated…
Conservation Research: Lake Oku Clawed Frog
Here is the second blog from Thomas Doherty-Bone, who is carrying out research on little know amphibians in Cameroon, including a number of EDGE…
Introducing the Lake Oku Clawed Frog
This is the first blog from Thomas Doherty-Bone, who is carryng out conservation research on amphibians unique to Cameroon. Thomas is being supported by…
Erasmus Darwin Barlow Conservation Expeditons
Two years ago, for the first time in its 180-year history, the Zoological Society of London launched the Erasmus Darwin Barlow Conservation Expeditions. The programme’s aim…
Sir David Attenborough appeals for the Amphibia
On Thursday last week Sir David Attenborough hosted an event at ZSL promoting amphibian conservation; ‘Amphibians in a Climate of Change’ aimed to raise…
X-Frogs
Marvel Comics brought you X-Men in 1963; spandex-uniformed human genetic anomalies or “mutants” with super powers hinted at by their names, e.g. Iceman, Beast,…