South-East Asian amphibians are both poorly known and highly threatened. That’s the biggest reason that my colleagues and I spend weeks searching the montane forests of the region, discovering and documenting the amazing diversity of the amphibians found there. It’s a vital first step towards amphibian conservation. Leer más.

A string of smuggling attempts have been stopped in Indonesia at the country’s largest and busiest airport, including a case of three slow lorises stuffed into socks and hidden under a trafficker’s clothes. Leer más.

Predictions of the loss of animal and plant diversity around the world are common under models of future climate change. But a new study shows that because these climate models don’t account for species competition and movement, they could grossly underestimate future extinctions. Leer más.

It’s flat. It’s slimy. And it hides under rocks on the river bottom. It’s the Ozark hellbender, and at up to two feet in length, it’s one of the world’s largest salamanders. Leer más.

If not kissing the frog, at least appreciating their ‘croak’ may lead to some headway in to climate research . For the first time frog song is being monitored using automated sound recorders by Indian scientists to track the impact of climate change on amphibians in the forests of southern Western Ghats. The methodology for tracking their call has recently been standardized by researchers. Leer más.