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• 18 Nov 11
  

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  Apparently a fungal epidemic is killing frogs across the world at a fairly rapid clip. No cure seems evident, so in the interests of biodiversity, there is a a biological ark of sorts being set up to care for captive frogs for the time being until the epidemic runs its course.
  

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• 02 Nov 11
  

  Hugo Rings

  Biology

• 03 May 11
  

  Brooke Eulate
• 29 Oct 10
  

  Alicia Caro

  Our vision is the world’s amphibians safe in nature, and our mission is ensuring the global survival of amphibians, focusing on those that cannot currently be safeguarded in nature.

  Biodiversidad Conservación

• 05 Sep 09
  

  Sheryl A. McCoy

  Without immediate captive
  management as a stopgap component of an integrated conservation effort, hundreds of species could become extinct.
  
  Find out what you can do to help...

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• 20 Aug 08
  

  Julie Tucker

  Year of the Frog

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• 09 Dec 07
  

  Nathan Rein

  The Amphibian Ark is an emergency ex situ conservation project that removes threatened amphibians from their habitat and preserves them in a secure environment. Almost 200 species (est'd.) of amphibians have been wiped out by fungus recently.

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• 25 Aug 07
  

  Stephen Hendrix

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• 16 Feb 07
  

  John Waugh

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