A comprehensive checklist of Indian amphibians has been updated and launched on the Zoological Survey of India website on 18th January 2019. Since 2009, Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India in collaboration with other institutes have been updating the Indian amphibian checklist periodically. In 2009 the total number of species was 284. In 2010 it was 311, in 2011 it was 314, in 2012 and 2013 it was 342, in 2015 it was 384 and in 2017 it was 405 species. Leer más.
Manchester Metropolitan University in collaboration with Chester Zoo and the Amphibian Survival Alliance are excited to announce that the Amphibian Conservation Research Symposium (ACRS) is returning to Manchester in 2019. ACRS is the only international symposium dedicated specifically to the sharing of research and strategies to empower the future of amphibian conservation. ACRS helps to bring together amphibian conservationists and researchers from around the world to gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts. With a strong focus on early career conservation and research practitioners, ACRS is helping to build a future for global amphibian conservation efforts. Leer más.
The reintroduction program for the green turtle in the Cayman Islands has been crucial in order to recover this species, which are threatened by the effects of human overexploitation, according to the first genetic study of the green turtle’s reintroduction program in this area of the Atlantic ocean. Leer más.
A pandemic is on the horizon. A fungal pathogen called Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) almost completely wiped out several fire salamander populations in Europe and biologists think it may be only a matter of time until it gets to North America. Leer más.
La Asociación cultural «La Serrana» y el grupo de ornitología Mavea organizan un ciclo de charlas titulado «Ciencia y naturaleza». Hoy, a las 19.30 horas, Jaime Bosch Pérez, científico titular del CSIC y responsable de los programas de seguimiento de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, ofrecerá la conferencia «La vida secreta de los anfibios». Bosch, actualmente, trabaja en la Unidad mixta de investigación en Biodiversidad del Principado de Asturias. Será en el hotel 40 Nudos. Leer más.
