We describe a new species of the Scinax cruentomma species group, with a red streak in the iris and a weakly bilobate vocal sac. It is known from oligotrophic soils in the sedimentary basin of the Ucayali River near Jenaro Herrera (province of Requena, Peru) and Río Blanco (buffer zone of the Matses Indigenous territory and reserve). Leer más.
Like much other British wildlife, numbers have plummeted through the destruction of breeding ponds and pollution from farms. Because they are a protected species, the newts are blamed by developers for holding up their projects because they have to be relocated. Leer más.
New pathologies are causing dramatic declines and extinctions of multiple amphibian species. In 2013, we found fire salamanders with undescribed cysts at the throat level in one population in Northern Italy, which existence is not reported in amphibians yet. Leer más.
El Taller de Actualización de la Estrategia Binacional de Conservación de la Ranita de Darwin culminó con un viaje a la Reserva Biológica Huilo Huilo, ubicada en la comuna de Panguipulli, en la Región de los Ríos. Esta es una área protegida privada de 100.000 hectáreas que contiene una sorprendente diversidad biológica, con especies de flora y fauna únicas en el mundo, entre ellas, la Ranita de Darwin. Leer más.
