Connecting Amphibian Conservation with International Development — ASA Seminar Series
This upcoming seminar brings together three speakers with experience bridging conservation science, international policy, and development practice.
Amphibians are among the most vocal animals on Earth. Their calls carry more information than we often realize: who is present, how many, and how a population is holding up over time.
On Monday, August 24, the Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA) and Anura Africa invite you to a free, live seminar on amphibian bioacoustics, from listening, to counting, to conservation. The team at Anura Africa will share how bioacoustics is moving from a way to detect frogs to a way to count them, and what that means for conservation on the ground.
This session is part of the ASA Practitioner Seminar Series, our program of practitioner-led, skill-building sessions for the global amphibian conservation community.
The details
When: Monday, August 24, 2026
Time: 9:00 to 11:00 AM ET (1:00 to 3:00 PM UTC | 3:00 to 5:00 PM SAST)
Where: Live on Zoom
Cost: Free to join, registration required
Two talks, followed by about twenty minutes for your questions. The session is hosted by Gina Della Togna, Executive Director of the Amphibian Survival Alliance.
The talks
Listening to Nature, Together: Highlights from the African Amphibian Bioacoustics Workshop
Jeanne Tarrant, PhD, Executive Director, Anura Africa
Jeanne's talk explores the highlights and lessons from Anura Africa's African Amphibian Bioacoustics Workshop, held in March 2026. From Passive Acoustic Monitoring and automated call recognition to real-world applications in threatened species monitoring, the workshop showed both the potential of bioacoustics and the challenges of applying it across Africa. Perhaps its most important outcome was not technical but human: the network of people, ideas, and collaborations that emerged. This session looks at how bioacoustics is being used to address amphibian knowledge gaps, strengthen monitoring and conservation, and connect people, skills, and ideas across the African continent and beyond.
From Calls to Population Estimates: Principles and Applications of aSCR
J. Alexander Nieto Lawrence, Applied Research Officer, Anura Africa
Alex Nieto discusses methods for estimating amphibian population densities, focusing on the principles and applications of acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR) and the growing role of bioacoustics in amphibian conservation. The talk draws on ongoing collaborative work to monitor threatened South African amphibians, with examples from the Cape Peninsula Moss Frog, Micro Frog, and Long-toed Tree Frog.
Who it's for
This seminar is for amphibian conservation practitioners, researchers, field biologists, students, and conservation organizations interested in how bioacoustics can support practical conservation. It will especially appeal to anyone building conservation capacity and collaboration, particularly in Africa and among those working with limited data, equipment, or technical resources.
No prior expertise in bioacoustics is required. The focus is on the bigger picture: what acoustic technologies are emerging, how these tools are being applied in the field, and where the opportunities for collaboration lie.
Register
Registration is free and takes under a minute.
Everyone who registers receives the recording and the slides afterward, whether or not they can join us live. Questions? Get in touch at info@amphibians.org.
