Within Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo lies a long stretch of sandy beach that is very important to marine turtles. Thousands of endangered green and critically endangered hawksbill turtles come ashore and use this beach for nesting. Leer más.





Often taken for granted, freshwaters are immensely diverse habitats – they host over 10 per cent of all animals and over 35 per cent of all vertebrates. At the same time, no other major component of global biodiversity is declining at as fast a rate as freshwater species and ecosystems. Leer más.
Salamanders can regrow entire limbs and regenerate parts of major organs, an ability that relies on their immune systems, research now shows. Leer más.
La Asociación Herpetológica Argentina en conjunto con el Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT-CONICET) y la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco (UNPSJB) tienen el agrado de dar la bienvenida al XIV Congreso Argentino de Herpetología, que se desarrollará en la ciudad de Puerto Madryn entre los días 17 y 20 de Septiembre de 2013. Leer más.
This two-week course is oriented towards graduate students with an interest in amphibian conservation, microbial ecology or global change biology. The course will be held at the La Selva Biological Research Station and research laboratories at the University of Costa Rica. Students will be presented with a variety of topics relevant to the microbial ecology of amphibian decline, emphasizing on modern OMICs approaches (genomics, proteomics and metabolomics). Leer más.