Every year, the Whitely Fund for Nature offer their annual Whitley Awards to effective grassroots conservationists working across the Global South. These awards are both an international profile prize and a form of project funding. Leer más.
Toads on Roads is a long-term UK-based project coordinated by the charity Froglife. Each year hundreds of ‘toad patrollers’ go out in mild conditions after dusk in early spring to help toads that are trying to reach their breeding sites. Common toads (Bufo bufo) breed in ancestral ponds and follow habitual migration routes to reach their breeding sites. Hundreds or thousands of toads may congregate at breeding ponds for just a few weeks each year. Unfortunately, migration routes often take toads across roads, and adults experience high levels of mortality. Toad patrollers are vital in helping the toads to reach their ponds safely. Since the first patrols were set up in the early 1980s, over 1.5 million common toads have been helped across roads by dedicated volunteers. Leer más.
Rising temperatures could mean no male loggerhead turtles hatch at a key breeding ground by the end of this century, new research suggests. Leer más.
A new dink frog (Eleutherodactylidae: Diasporus) is described from the Tropical Wet Forest, in the northeastern foothills of Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica at an elevation of ca. 1000 m. Analysis of DNA sequences of the 16S rRNA (16S) and cytochrome oxidase 1 (COI) mitochondrial genes revealed a distinct lineage within the genus Diasporus. Additional morphological, morphometric, and acoustic analyses support the differences of this lineage, which we recognize as a new species. Leer más.ç
En el marc del programa de reintroducció de la tortuga mediterrània occidental (Testudo hermanni hermanni), enguany al Parc del Garraf s’han alliberat un total de 660 tortugues mediterrànies per tal de reforçar-ne les poblacions en el massís. Les tortugues alliberades procedeixen de la recuperació i cria en captivitat duta a terme al Centre de Recuperació d’Amfibis i Rèptils de Catalunya (CRARC), d’individus aportats pel Centre de Reproducció de Tortugues de l’Albera, i de les instal·lacions de cria gestionades per particulars, en col·laboració amb el Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat de la Generalitat de Catalunya, entre elles el Zoo de Barcelona. Leer más.
